Hi, > We have an in-house virtual globe used for weather and meteorology > purposes. This app is mostly coded in C and uses GDAL/OGR. Do you plan to release this virtual globe as open source one day or another ?
> Google Maps tiles require an API key tied to a website url. Maybe > something could be hacked, but could complicated (and not to say, > probably against the API license!). I'm not sure OpenLayers could help > either. Accessing GMaps from another place than the website, even for a non-commercial use, is clearly against the API license. Gaia, an opensource virtual globe, has recently been asked by google to stop its use of google data. http://gaia.serezhkin.com/ > Any clue? Would there be a way to do that freely without the need of a > Google Earth Enterprise or any other data licensing scheme? Data, and especially high resolution data, are as for now, very expensive (google said more than $500M for their data). Sadly, the better you can do is use freely available data (the WMS services you pointed to), and help freeing data by lobbying, mainly among government agencies... Bye, Vincent _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
