[Qgis-user] google wms

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Richard

There is a project to support WMS-C and other tile services.
Jürgen is going to work on that.

Regards,
Marco

Am Freitag, 5. Februar 2010 17.59:54 schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> M.E.Dodd wrote:
> > Is it possible to use google maps or the MS equivalent in qgis,
> > presumably not?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> no there is at this moment no such way to use those kind of maps. These
> kind of services are called 'Tiled Map Services', and one of the
> drawbacks of these are that (without othere rescaling clientside) they
> serve only (map tile) images for fixed scales.
> 
> We have been thinking about it at an earlier hackfest, but up untill now
> nobody has started to work on it.
> 
> Theoretically it would be feasible: just provide some 'tile-scheme' to a
> WMS-T/TMS/-layer and provide the service url.
> Then the layer could retrieve the 'capabilities' and from that on maybe
> the map will be frozen to only the scales provided by this Tiled Map
> Server (?).
> Map-Libraries like openlayers also have this notion of either 'free
> scaling' or 'fixed scales'.
> 
> But somebody should pick up this glove :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard Duivenvoorde
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