Out of a desire to be able to rehost 3rd party apps that are coded against the public services, is the first reason that comes to mind.
For mashups being built ... I'm too far from the technical details to know the advantages/disadvantages, I'm channeling what our community (on a closed network) is saying. Certainly there must be SOME reason Google exposes the GGeoXML, instead of just telling everyone to do what you're saying, Mano. No? -----Original Message----- From: Mano Marks [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wed 6/3/2009 11:48 PM To: pamela fox Cc: Bucci, David G; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geowanking] questions for the Google Maps Team? So, why wouldn't you just load the KML through a layer in the server? That can be done with the API packaged with Earth Server. Mano Marks Geo Developer Advocate http://twitter.com/ManoMarks On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, pamela fox <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
