Addon Virtual Earth

This geOrchestra viewer addon allows users to display Virtual Earth basemap on all over the world.

Authors: @hsquividant

Compatibility : geOrchestra >= 15.06

Example addon config:

    {
        "id": "virtualearth_0",
        "enabled": true,
        "name": "VirtualEarth",
        "options": {
            "key": "Put your own key",
            "type": "AerialWithLabels",
            "name": "Aerial imagery with a road overlay"
        },
        "title": {
            "en": "Bing - Virtual Earth Base Map",
            "fr": "Fond de carte Virtual Earth",
            "es": "Mapa base de Virtual Earth",
            "de": "Virtual Earth Kartenhintergrund",
        },
        "description": {
            "en": "Microsoft Bing - Virtual Earth Base Map all over the world",
            "fr": "Fond de carte Microsoft Bing - Virtual Earth sur le monde entier",
            "es": "Mapa base de Microsoft Bing - Virtual Earth en todo el mundo",
            "de": "Microsoft Bing - Virtual Earth Kartenhintergrund auf der ganzen Welt",
        }
    }

Setup

First, you have to create an account on Bing web site https://www.bingmapsportal.com and then you can create your own key.

In the config.json file, you have to replace key option by your own key and choose type and name between 5 different basemaps :

Type	Name
Aerial	Aerial imagery
AerialWithLabels	Aerial imagery with a road overlay
Birdseye	Bird’s eye (oblique-angle) imagery
BirdseyeWithLabels	Bird’s eye imagery with a road overlay
Road	Roads without additional imagery