On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:02:46AM -0400, Kevin Galligan wrote: > I have OSM as the base layer, then geoserver is building a transparent > layer on top of that to paint data points. > > I was considering having geoserver build the base layer by downloading > the OSM data, but as of today, that seems like overkill. > > Also, since we're talking different base layers, I gave a demo and a > guy from Microsoft was there. He said Virtual Earth's licence is > different than Googles and you can use their map data in a proprietary > app, or you can but only with their startup program (bizspark or > something like that). Thoughts?
In order to use their tiles for anything commercial, it has always been my understanding you have to give them $$ first. (But once you do, they're pretty open with what you do.) -- Chris > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM, David Fawcett<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Because you are using Geoserver, it may not be of much use, but there > > are several examples of 'Googley' MapServer map files that could be > > found by searching the MapServer listserv. I don't know if there is > > an easy way to convert between a MapServer map file and a geoserver > > config file. > > > > David. > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Kevin Galligan<[email protected]> wrote: > >> How would one do this? I'm using openstreetmaps now, and things look > >> OK, but I think people are used to how google maps looks. Plus the > >> color scheme is a little "warmer". OSM is very blue/gray. > >> > > > > > > -- > -------------------- > Kevin Galligan > www.kagii.com > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
