[OpenLayers-Users] Google license

[Christopher Schmidt]

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<david.fawcett at gmail.com> 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<kgalligan at gmail.com> 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.
> >>
> >
> 
> 
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