[OpenLayers-Users] Saving with a Google Maps base layer

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:59:05PM -0700, Gregor at HostGIS wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
> > How about this?
> > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/
> 
> Hey, nice!
> 
> I do see 1 issue with some uses: "640x640 is the largest image size 
> allowed" So you may have to figure up, say, 4 references points within 
> the image and make those queries to get the images. Of course, that 
> means multiple "Powered by Google" texts.
> 
> The use of viewport, looks as if it would return an image not matching 
> your requested bounds, so computing how to blit that into your final 
> product may not be feasible.

In my experience, this is the case: you don't know what the actual
extent of the resulting image was. Maybe that's changed since I looked.

-- Chris

> Fascinating idea, though. I will contact one of our customers who does 
> use Google Maps under OL and who has been wanting to print them, and see 
> whether he'll fund 1-3 hours of R&D. If he does, I'll be updating the 
> Printing page.
> 
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