Yes. O'Reilley's Google Map Hacks is a good place to start.
For our purposes, I don't think this is an issue but positional accuracy
may be an issue using Google data since they don't verify that, but use
data they obtain/purchase as-is, with the caveat that the user is
responsible for such things. When I consider this, it makes sense.
It's a big enough task for someone or some organization to undertake for
a local region. It's a completely different order of magnitude for a
global scale, and using satellite and aircraft-derived imagery,
especially if you don't have access to the nadir-offset information.
I'm being reminded of these issues as I just finished an NSF proposal
looking at satellite calibration/validation ("Cal/Val") and off-axis
nadir pointing is a big factor in cal/val and operational use.
gerry
Andrew Rich wrote:
So what do we need to do ?
Learn about google map API's ?
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Subject: Re: [Xastir] Making better looking maps
That would be *AWESOME*
Perhaps my overloaded brain and willingness to learn may start towards
this...... umm yea right.... lol
tnx and 73's
Stephen
K1LNX
On 8/24/07, Curt, WE7U < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Stephen - K1LNX wrote:
One question to the dev's. Is it possible to integrate google maps into
Xastir?
It's been talked about. Gerry Creager did some asking of the Google
guys and they said something to the effect of: "Yes, please use
it!".
Just need a developer with a bit of free time and the desire to look
into it.
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