Discontinued Services Bing Maps Rest Services

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That is absolutely NOT what he means about the keys!

“to avoid key sharing”. Every program having its own key. However a coordinated approach that can be used with Microsoft to get your own key. Thus avoiding everyone approaching Microsoft using different channels and different methods with resultant duplication of effort and duplication of research on how to actually get hold of the keys.

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Just to point out the obvious: with perhaps the exception of iD / Potlatch likely everybody has a non-enterprise account and associated key.

With other words the clock is ticking and the EWG would already seem to be stretching things for many projects as this change needs to be done and fit in to a release cycle by end of June.

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How are those keys being managed and distributed? Is there one account/key for all those, or different ones?

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Is there a list of editors that use Bing Maps services, and the key they use?

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This following list is most likely incomplete, but should contain the most popular editors that have support for a Bing Maps background layer.

  • iD and Rapid share one key (from an “enterprise” account)
  • JOSM and Potlatch share another key (this key is old, but I assume that it is also an “enterprise” key)
  • Vespucci has its own key (likely associated to a regular personal account)
  • Merkaartor seems to have its own key (likely a personal account)
  • and I’m not sure which key(s) Go Map, Pushpin, etc. use
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Every Door — a personal account key as well.

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Folks, time to get your credit cards out: Bing Imagery Glitch in JOSM (Error: Attribution is not loaded yet) and blank tiles - #25 by SimonPoole

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Bing imagery is sometimes the only reasonably-resolution imagery available. I would be severely impacted if we were to lose access to it.