Bing static maps

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Since Google Static Maps imposes a daily quota on its service (and so does Google Maps JavaScript API unfortunately), I'm considering instead Microsoft's Bing Static Maps API. With Google it was enough to include on my website one line of code:

<img class="google_maps" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=48.2044544,16.3706368&zoom=9&markers=color:red%7Clabel:A%7C48.2044544,16.3706368&size=200x200&key=XXXXXXXXXXXX">

Bing's example code snippet

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Map/imagerySet/centerPoint/zoomLevel?mapSize=mapSize&pushpin=pushpin&mapLayer=mapLayer&format=format&mapMetadata=mapMetadata&key=BingMapsKey

seems to follow the same logic, but I couldn't get it to work. Has anybody experience

  1. whether there is really no limit (in practice) for using the Bing Maps API

  2. How to correctly include a bing map in my website?

Thank you!

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For Google Maps, you should have enough quota per day already. You should try optimize your load and if you still do not have enough quota, you should consider purchasing a Google Maps API for Work license to get more quota. - kaho

2 Answers

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Full documentation on how to use the static Imagery service in Bing Maps can be found here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701724.aspx

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I know it doesn't answer the main question, but the OP mentioned the reason he has the problem is because of the daily quota. So I came here to offer an free to use/self hosted alternative I made just to cincurvent that. It's sort of a clone of google static maps called osm-static-maps, you can find it here https://github.com/jperelli/osm-static-maps