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Alright, the alternate MapQuest URL & API key are there now in the mapquest
branch, but I am leaving Google Static Maps as the source for now. Reasons are fairly subjective. I prefer the more pronounced terrain shading and slightly crisper looking labels.
http://open.mapquestapi.com/staticmap/ appears roughly compatible with the Google Static Maps API.
The Google basemap URL for the SouthMtn test file is: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=42.079896,-75.924359&zoom=14&size=640x320&maptype=terrain&scale=2&format=jpg
An equivalent image from MQ: http://open.mapquestapi.com/staticmap/v4/getmap?key=YOUR_KEY_HERE¢er=42.079896,-75.924359&zoom=14&size=640,320&type=hyb&imagetype=jpeg
Nice thing about MQ imagery is it includes a scale bar.
The high resolutino
scale
parameter is not supported, but thesize
limit is higher, at3840
. You can specify a double-res size and bump upzoom
to the next level for equivalent results:http://open.mapquestapi.com/staticmap/v4/getmap?key=YOUR_KEY_HERE¢er=42.079896,-75.924359&zoom=15&size=1280,640&type=hyb&imagetype=jpeg