Chris,
regarding the non-webbased clients you are right...
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Till Adams wrote:
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?
Many clients *can't* do this, and it does cause a problem for those clients.
For example, it's difficult for qgis to consume Google Maps tiles, last
I looked, but it can consume a WMS easily, so you can imagine using
MapServer as the integration point.
Web-based clients aren't the only types of clients that MapServer
WMSes have, and are the only clients that can consume Google Maps.
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