Bing maps is providing a WMS interface via OnTerra There is an article about it here
http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/6370-Bing-Maps-via-WMS.html It would be a better approach. Mike -- Michael Smith RSGIS Center US Army Corps of Engineers On 8/26/09 4:17 AM, "Till Adams" <[email protected]> wrote: > Niels-Peter, > > the features you mention (turning on/off layers, changing order of > layers) are for me more client side features than serverside- or > mapserver-features - which brings us back to the client... ;-) > > If you are looking for a free basemap you may check openstreetmap (OK, > no aerial images so far, but also in progress: > http://wiki.openaerialmap.org/OAM_2009 ) > > Regards, Till > > >> Hi Till >> >> I see the google maps tiles as a way of getting a free basemap. You are >> properly right regarding distroted labels when reprojecting googlemaps - >> depending on where you are in the world and the final projection. But at >> least a pure sattelite image would ok. >> >> I could make a client to consume both Mapserver and Googlemaps, but I would >> like to do it on the server side and be able to use MapServer features, eg. >> turning on/off layers, changing order of layers and so on. >> >> Regards Niels-Peter >> >> >> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- >> Fra: Till Adams [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sendt: 26. august 2009 09:21 >> Til: Niels-Peter Jensen >> Cc: [email protected] >> Emne: Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps >> >> >> Niels-Peter, >> >> I really do not see the need for this. >> >> All things, which are fun regarding Mapserver are not possible with >> GoogleMaps, e.g. reprojection or define your map layout in an easy way. >> Even if you would write some piece of code, which would enable mapserver >> getting that google tiles as a datasource you'll have at least a slower >> service than pure google and - if reprojecting the google stuff - you'll >> have "unreadable" maps with distorted labels. >> >> So beside the fact Chris already mentioned - I think if you have a >> client, which is able to show Mapserver services AND google map services >> together, you're fine, or what is your intention? >> >> Regards, Till >> >> >>> 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, >>> >>> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
