Hey David- I hadn't thought of that; I suppose it would be a possibility. Do you have an enterprise sales rep? I would advise making the feature request in terms of that suggestion.
Note: It could be that the Enterprise Earth team is already working on it -- I've just told you what I know of the free API's functionality. On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Bucci, David G <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Pamela, some good news here. On the GGeoXML, I guess I don't > understand why the server side parsing capability can't be included in the > Enterprise distribution, for running on our own servers. Does it simply > depend too much on internal services unique to the Google infrastructure? > (it doesn't _seem_ like it would) is it a concern about licensing or someone > competing on the public internet? Surely that'd be addressable via > licensing, or simply sell it only to closed-network-only environments ... > > > ________________________________ > > From: pamela fox [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sat 5/30/2009 2:20 AM > To: Bucci, David G > Cc: Brady Forrest; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] questions for the Google Maps Team? > > > > Next time, I'll live-record the answers to the chat. Answers inline. > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Bucci, David G <[email protected]> > wrote: >> When will they promote the public-internet-only capabilities (e.g., GGeoXML) >> into the Enterprise version of Google Maps, that companies/agencies deploy >> on closed networks? >> > No immediate plans; that's rather tricky to do. We would have to fetch > the file over XMLHR, and then send all the KML data to our servers to > be parsed by our server-side KML parser. Since we can't POST data > using JSONP, that'd be near impossible. Our other option would be to > re-implement KML parsing in JavaScript - but at that point, you may as > well use one of the open-source extensions like EGeoXml. > >> >> >> What's the forward plan to more rapidly deploy Google Maps API versions into >> that Enterprise version of Google Maps (e.g., today, the Enterprise version >> is still at v2.109 of the API, I believe)? >> > > In the next version, they've architected it to allow for version > updates of the API without necessitating updates of GE-E. I believe > that's coming soon. > >> >> >> What's the forward plan for increased synergy (not that it's not already >> good) between Google Maps and the Google Earth web plugin? >> > > Well, we just made it a bit better yesterday! We'll keep working on > it, of course: > http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/05/hey-maps-api-and-earth-api-developers.html >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brady Forrest >> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:11 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Geowanking] questions for the Google Maps Team? >> >> >> >> I am at Google I/O at the Fireside Chat for the Maps team. Any questions for >> them? Send them soon. :-) >> >> Any answers I get I will send to the list. >> >> >> >> >> >> brady >> >> >> >> Brady Forrest >> >> O'Reilly Radar Team >> >> p: 206-428-7666 >> >> e: [email protected] >> >> w: http://radar.oreilly.com <http://radar.oreilly.com/> >> >> tw: @brady >> >> >> >> < div> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
