Offline caching - Bing Maps Android SDK

Apr 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM

Hi,

I'm not sure if I'm asking this question in the right place but If I'm not, you can at least, point me in the right direction. 

I'm developing an Android Application and I'm using the Bing Maps Android SDK. But, I need to cache a city for the user, even without internet connection, still be able to see the city map. 

So, basically I need to cache a small portion of the map for offline use.

Is that possible with this SDK?

 

Many thanks,

Luís

Coordinator
Jun 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM

Storing any of the map data offline is against the terms of use for Bing Maps and not allowed.

Oct 31, 2012 at 5:04 PM
rbrundritt wrote:

Storing any of the map data offline is against the terms of use for Bing Maps and not allowed.

Is there a place to report violations of those terms of use?

Because I would like to save time explaining to customers that we can't cache Bing Aerial Iimagery for offline use when they say "Well, this other Android app is doing it".

I'll name names. Trimble Outdoors.

If there is some licensing scheme that makes this available, then let me know. Every answer I have received from Bing is consistent with the above. Caching tiles is never allowed  ever under any possible licensing scheme.