Hi, Openlayers applications are not cascading Google Maps tiles but client applications are requesting them from Google API, directly from the users computers.
I think that chapter 10 in the document at http://code.google.com/intl/fi-FI/apis/maps/terms.html says rather clear that you are not allowed to serve Google Map data through your Mapserver. -Jukka Rahkonen- > -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > Lähettäjä: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Puolesta > Niels-Peter Jensen > Lähetetty: 26. elokuuta 2009 10:05 > Vastaanottaja: 'Christopher Schmidt' > Kopio: [email protected] > Aihe: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps > > Yes, it could be a violation of terms, but not if the > copyright notice and links still is there - or am I wrong on that ? > At least, thats this is what the Openlayers community thinks. > I think it would be a very nice if that could be accomplished > with MapServer too. > > Niels-Peter > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:[email protected]] > Sendt: 25. august 2009 17:14 > Til: Niels-Peter Jensen > Cc: [email protected] > Emne: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:42:27PM +0200, Niels-Peter Jensen wrote: > > Hi mapserver users > > > > Does anybody know if there has been done work to let > MapServer consume > > Google maps ? I know that this is possible in OpenLayers > (an example: > > http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/google.html), but with > MapServer I can > > only se it the other way around, MapeServer serving maps > til a GoogleMaps > > application by WMS. > > Doing so would be a violation of the terms of use of Google Maps. > > Regards, > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.65/2324 - Release > Date: 08/24/09 > 12:55:00 > > _______________________________________________ > mapserver-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
