[Gdal-dev] Method to get a google image by url?

[Brian Hamlin]

I am not pointing any fingers, but...
I was speaking with one of the Google developer relations people 
yesterday. There is a problem in the field with downloading a lot of 
Google's tiles and making things with them.. (I saw two examples) There 
is a denial of service that kicks in at some point. Google is aware of 
some of these cases, and is increasing scrutiny where appropriate.....

-Brian


On Nov 15, 2007, at 7:52 AM, Joaquim Luis wrote:

> Thanks Garrett
> Some search helped me to find that (in my case of course) this solves 
> the problem (windows)
>
> set http_proxy=proxy1.si.ualg.pt:8080
>
> Joaquim Luis
>
>> I think for any http requests GDAL uses libcurl.  There is a global 
>> environment variable (I think) that you can set outside your software 
>> for libcurl to go through a proxy.  Let me dig around real quick
>>
>> Take care
>>
>> Garrett
>>
>> On Nov 15, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Joaquim Luis wrote:
>>
>>> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>> If you have libcurl support included in your GDAL build you can 
>>>> just do:
>>>>
>>>>   gdalinfo 'http://kh.google.com/kh?v=99&n=404&t=tqssrrqstt'
>>>>
>>>> That is, GDAL has a special "HTTP" driver that will fetch from an 
>>>> url
>>>> and access the data from a memory buffer.
>>>
>>> Frank,
>>> Thanks that's cool, but before I dig out how to get the image in 
>>> memory let me bug you with one further question.
>>> How do we declare a proxy?
>>> (you command worked at home but not here at the University - 
>>> firewalls)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Joaquim
>>>
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