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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>I am not sure if the
Google maps licence would allow the embedding
of</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>Google maps data in Desktop
GIS?</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>In my opinion it allowed to
use the free Google Maps with QGIS without public access.
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>http://code.google.com/intl/de-CH/apis/maps/terms.html#section_7_1</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>As an other option for you
is to use OpenStreetMap. It is possible to embed OSM in conjunction with GDAL
1.7.0 into QGIS. Try to use the attached file as raster source with
QGIS.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Regards</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Horst</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>-----Ursprüngliche
Nachricht-----</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Von: Andreas Neumann
[mailto:a.neumann@carto.net]</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Gesendet
am: Montag, 8. Februar 2010 08:16</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>An:
Richard Duivenvoorde</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Cc:
qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Betreff: Re:
[Qgis-user] google wms</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Another restriction is the
fixed projection of the tiles and the
licence</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>restrictions.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>However, given that in some
regions, Google maps is one of the very
few</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>data sources available with ease,
it is probably worth the effort.</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>I am not sure if the Google
maps licence would allow the embedding
of</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Google maps data in Desktop
GIS?</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Andreas</span></div>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>On Fri, February 5, 2010
5:59 pm, Richard Duivenvoorde
wrote:</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> M.E.Dodd
wrote:</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>> Is it possible to use
google maps or the MS equivalent in
qgis,</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>> presumably
not?</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
Hi,</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
no there is at this moment no such way to use those kind of maps.
These</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> kind of services are called
'Tiled Map Services', and one of
the</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> drawbacks of these are that
(without othere rescaling clientside)
they</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> serve only (map tile) images
for fixed
scales.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
We have been thinking about it at an earlier hackfest, but up untill
now</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> nobody has started to work on
it.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
Theoretically it would be feasible: just provide some 'tile-scheme' to
a</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> WMS-T/TMS/-layer and provide
the service url.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> Then the layer
could retrieve the 'capabilities' and from that on
maybe</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> the map will be frozen to
only the scales provided by this Tiled
Map</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> Server
(?).</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> Map-Libraries like
openlayers also have this notion of either
'free</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>> scaling' or 'fixed
scales'.</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
But somebody should pick up this glove
:-)</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
Regards,</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>></span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
Richard Duivenvoorde</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>>
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<div class="Normal"><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>--
</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>Andreas
Neumann</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>http://www.carto.net/neumann/</span><br><span style='font-size: 10pt; '>http://www.svgopen.org/</span></div>
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