Advantages of using Google or Bing Tile layers

Within the Mapviewer API they allow you to use either Bing or Google tile layers for your map. I was just wondering what the functional advantages of using Mapviewer (with those layers added) would be versus just using Google or Bing directly through their own javascript APIs.
Thanks.
Edited by: user1175540 on Dec 29, 2010 2:16 PM

Hello,
if you just want to display google or bing maps, than there is no functional advantage.
But if you want to display your own data on top of the googel or bing maps, than you get the whole advantages of mapviewer.
Of course you can use the google api to display your own data, but you won't get the mapviewer advantages like pre rendering, caching, fois etc.

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