Bing Maps imagery problems

CesiumJS
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It looks like starting today the Bing imagery servers are returning 404s for tiles that look like:

http://ecn.t0.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/a0.jpeg?g=1001

which is a correct url based on template returned by their metadata service:

http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Aerial?key=AquXz3981-1ND5jGs8qQn7R7YUP8qkWi77yZSVM7o3nIvzb-Mg0W2Ta57xuUyywX&jsonp=jsonp661384

Sometimes it returns g=999 which results in tiles that work. g= in the url indicates which generation of imagery to use, it looks like they increment it every time the imagery is updated so that cached images are invalidated. As far as I can tell, this problem is entirely on their end (it looks like somebody forgot that numbers can go higher than 3 digits)

The actual Bing Maps web interface seems to be broken too, this map comes up blank for me and the console fills with 404s:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=-22.51438270245943~119.17488099324795&lvl=7&dir=0&sty=a&form=LMLTCC

Hopefully they’ll get this fixed soon. Anyone have contacts at Microsoft?

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Scott,

We can contact Bing Maps support tomorrow. Bart or Fili can also get you connected if they are in before me.

Patrick

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As a followup, looks like they fixed their servers late Friday:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bingmaps/thread/b794d402-d94a-492f-b987-3819a072ebcb

You may need to clear your browser cache to make it refresh the broken tiles.