Affordable Bing Maps WMS & WMTS imagery. Five layer options including Original Aerial, New Aerial, Roads, and Hybrid views — all OGC-compliant for use in GIS, CAD, and visual analysis workflows.
MapSavvy — from OnTerra Systems — is a web mapping platform that provides an inexpensive way to access Bing Maps aerial imagery through two industry-standard protocols: WMS and WMTS. Both are open specifications published by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which means MapSavvy works with the GIS and CAD software you already use, without proprietary plug-ins or lock-in.
WMS (Web Map Service) delivers map imagery as a single, dynamically rendered image for the exact area and zoom level your application requests. When your software asks for a specific bounding box, the MapSavvy WMS server returns one custom-built image of Bing Maps imagery for that view. WMS is flexible — it can reproject imagery on the fly to match your map's coordinate system — which makes it the right choice for desktop GIS and CAD workflows that use non-standard projections.
WMTS (Web Map Tile Service) takes a different approach: instead of rendering a fresh image each time, it serves pre-cut, pre-rendered map tiles from a fixed grid. Because those tiles are cached and reused, WMTS is significantly faster and scales better for web maps and applications with many users panning and zooming — the same tiling approach that powers the slippy maps you see in modern web mapping libraries like Leaflet and OpenLayers.
With MapSavvy you get both from a single affordable subscription. Use WMS when you need flexible, on-demand imagery in a specific projection; use WMTS when you need speed and scale. Either way, the Bing Maps imagery MapSavvy delivers can be incorporated into presentations, proposals, development plans, research reports, and GIS or CAD applications for fast, accurate visual analysis of patterns and trends.
MapSavvy's combination of standards-based access and affordable price is a welcome option for GIS & CAD teams, research teams on a budget, and government organizations.
Original & New Ortho Aerial Imagery layers, a Road layer, and Hybrid layers that combine both.
The original Bing Maps aerial imagery layer — Microsoft's classic tile set, with consistent global coverage.
Updated ortho aerial imagery — typically with newer capture dates and higher resolution depending on location.
Aerial imagery overlaid with the Bing Maps road network — useful when you need both the photographic context and labeled streets.
A blended layer that combines both the original and new Bing aerial imagery with a road overlay — for the best of both detail and orientation.
A road-data-only layer for use cases that don't require aerial imagery — ideal as a base street map.
In addition to Bing Maps, MapSavvy also offers imagery from Google Maps and HERE Technologies.
MapSavvy is designed from the ground up to work in many GIS & CAD applications. If your software can connect to a public GIS web server, it can connect to MapSavvy.
Any endeavor that requires detailed maps or high-resolution imagery for GIS/CAD projects, presentations, proposals, or visual analysis benefits from MapSavvy.
Try MapSavvy free for 14 days. No credit card required.