Hello, Le lundi 7 avril 2014 12:05:05, Nyall Dawson a écrit : > On 7 April 2014 18:15, Vincent Picavet <[email protected]> wrote: > > A good solution though would be to remove google layers and only use OSM > > and mapbox layers, which begin to be on par in terms of quality. > > I'm pretty sure this is against MapBox's terms of service too, unless > users were made to sign up for a MapBox account and had to add their > individual API key to QGIS to unlock MapBox layers: > "You must have a Mapbox account to use Mapbox. You are required to > register for an account before using the Service. Each request to the > API must include your account's unique API identifier. Unauthorized > use of any API identifier is prohibited." [1]
Right, I had not read this through. It would probably be much easier to get a specific authorization from MapBox than from Google though, given their open- source orientation. > > Or let the user a > > deliberate way to add google layers (indicating a URL or something like > > this), warning him about the licence. > > Hmm... while this may be a workable solution to the licensing issue, > wouldn't it be a step back in functionality anyway? We'd be trading > having a good, working off-the-shelf third-party plugin for a crippled > core version which takes user intervention to unlock the same > features. In any case, there are quite a lot of OSM based layers which can be used (HOT, OSM.fr, OpenCycleMap...). We can still enhance the plugin with those. It would lack an aerial imagery layer though. > I'm totally for adding essential plugins to core (or merging the > functionality with reimplemented c++ versions), but I honestly don't > know if it's workable to do this for the OpenLayers plugin. Right, if we remove everything from the plugin except the TMS YXZ layers, we could also just have a better ergonomy for opening this kind of layers through GDAL, and have a predefined list of layers accessible on internet (even auto- updatable by downloading the list). Vincent _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
