What about using the Google Maps static API and making multiple calls and tiling? Is that within the TOS?
Mike On 8/26/09 1:16 PM, "Christopher Schmidt" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:13:53PM +0200, Marco Foi (marco.foi) wrote: >> 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. > > This isn't strictly true. Desktop clients which are capable of embedding > a browser can use the browser, render a scene, take the resulting image, > and display that to the client. There are a number of clients which > do exactly that in OpenStreetMap editors, for example. > > However, this is obviousl significantly more complex than just fetching the > tiles, which is the way most people discuss doing it. > > Anything is possible, but that doesn't mean it will be easy. > > Regards, _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
