On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:04:59AM +0200, Niels-Peter Jensen wrote: > 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 ?
You are wrong on that. > At least, thats this is what the Openlayers community thinks. That is incorrect. OpenLayers uses the Google Maps API -- we do not use the tiles directly. We only access the Google Maps data through their Javascript API, in a browser. > I think it would be a very nice if that could be accomplished with MapServer > too. MapServer can't do the same thing in any practical manner. -- Christohper Schmidt OpenLayers Core Developer > 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
