Some time ago a similar issue was raised among UDig users and the conclusion was that: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to consume Google Maps in Desktop clients.
The reason is simple: Google does NOT ALLOW this to happen. Basically each request for a map tile must come from another server having its own public IP. Each request coming from a Desktop client would be dropped after very few answers. Using Mapserver would be a workaround but would BROKE the LICENSE agreement. Marco Foi ----- Messaggio Originale ----- Da: Rahkonen Jukka <[email protected]> Data: Mercoledi', Agosto 26, 2009 9:47 am Oggetto: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps A: Niels-Peter Jensen <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] > 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 > Marco Foi Università degli Studi di Milano Dip. di Scienze della Terra "A.Desio" Sezione di Geologia e Paleontologia Via Luigi Mangiagalli 34 Cap.20133 Milano Laboratorio Informatico - Tel. 02- 503 15 503 E-mail [email protected]
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