SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Niels-Peter Jensen
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

Re: [mapserver-users] Documentation update

2009-08-26 Thread paalkr
Hi! Do I need to do make any changes or something to the ticket, to get a feedback on this issue? Regards, Pål Kristensen paalkr wrote: Bump Pål paalkr wrote: Done, http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/2909#preview Pål Jeff McKenna wrote: paalkr wrote: Hi! I

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Till Adams
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

Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
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

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Schmidt
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

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Schmidt
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

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Till Adams
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

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Jacolin Yves
Hello, Le Wednesday 26 August 2009 16:17:54 Christopher Schmidt, vous avez écrit : On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Till Adams wrote: [..] 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,

Re: [mapserver-users] layers not getting separated

2009-08-26 Thread Steve . Toutant
and your mapfile as well? Steve Toutant, M. Sc. Analyste en géomatique Secteur environnement Direction des risques biologiques, environnementaux et occupationnels Institut national de santé publique du Québec 945, avenue Wolfe Québec, Qc G1V 5B3 Tél.: (418) 650-5115 #5281 Fax.: (418) 654-3144

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Bob Basques
All, The newest version of GeoMoose is built on top of OpenLayers, so if the OpenLayer LIB is able to directly access, then GeoMoose can too. I'm not up on the OpenLayers particulars, but as I understand things, the OpenLayers read options were a big reason for incorporating OpenLayers into

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Bob Basques wrote: All, The newest version of GeoMoose is built on top of OpenLayers, so if the OpenLayer LIB is able to directly access, then GeoMoose can too. I'm not up on the OpenLayers particulars, but as I understand things, the OpenLayers

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Bob Basques
All, I don't know whether is violates any rules or not, but it can consume the Google data just like Open Layers can, because it uses the OpenLayers display engine. Yes, it's a client, that's why the Server (re-processing) clause in the Google restrictions don't (directly?) apply. Even if

Re: [mapserver-users] Problem rendering in MapServer 5.2.1

2009-08-26 Thread Gorka Lopez
Using metaTiles, the problem dissapear. Thanks Steve for your response. Gorka Lopez wrote: Hi, I have installed Map Server for Windows v1.57, that includes MapServer 5.2.1 CGI. I have written a .map file that consumes information stored in a PostGreSQL database (PostgreSQL

[mapserver-users] Variable-substitution cause WMS GetFeatureInfo error

2009-08-26 Thread AlessioDL
Hi, I'm creating an application based on UMN-Mapserver used as WMS server. The application adds a filtered layer (stored in postgis) to the map, adding only the features respondig to the filter value. In my mapfile I have this: LAYER ... FILTER year = %year% ... END I get the value of %year%

Re: [mapserver-users] Variable-substitution cause WMS GetFeatureInfo error

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Lime
Hmmm... If a the URL overloading works with WMS getMap then it should work with getFeatureInfo. Can you confirm the former? Steve On 8/26/2009 at 10:07 AM, in message 1251299258021-3515191.p...@n2.nabble.com, AlessioDL alessio.dilore...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm creating an application

Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Christopher Schmidt
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

Re: [mapserver-users] Variable-substitution cause WMS GetFeatureInfo error

2009-08-26 Thread AlessioDL
Steve Lime wrote: Hmmm... If a the URL overloading works with WMS getMap then it should work with getFeatureInfo. Can you confirm the former? Steve Hi Steve, and thank you for your answer. I confirm that the wms getmap works well even if I put the %year% variable into the layer

Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH
With the advent of the Bing WMS service, that will be the best solution, it appears (for now). Mike On 8/26/09 3:01 PM, Christopher Schmidt crschm...@metacarta.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:25:11PM -0400, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote: What about using the Google Maps static

Re: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

2009-08-26 Thread Edmar Moretti
I work in developing a software called i3geo based on Mapserver (http://www.softwarepublico.gov.br). In this software we have several interfaces: normal http://mapas.mma.gov.br/i3geo GoogleMaps http:/ / mapas.mma.gov.br/i3geo/ms_criamapa.php?interface=googlemaps.phtml GoogleEarth