[Geomoose-users] Extension of GM/OpenLayers Google capabilities?

[Brent Fraser]

Johan,

   GeoMOOSE also supports OpenLayer's XYZ layer type, but I don't think that 
will help.

   I couldn't find much info on Google Earth Enterprise and the API, other than 
Google's note about "extending the familiar Google Maps API" 
(http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/deployment_options.html).

I expect accessing your Google Earth Enterprise server (using it's native tiling 
mode, not WMS) would require something like:

- setting up your HTML to load the Enterprise server's API javascript
- enhancing OpenLayers to have a .GoogleEnterprise layer type (sub-class of the 
existing .Google layer type?) to access the appropriate functions in the API
- enhancing GeoMOOSE to use this layer type, including setting the URL of the server

And there's the question of authentication.  Since each of your users has a 
unique username/password, they'd have to be able to enter those at each session. 
  Perhaps Google's "extented" API would handle that; if not, you'd have to do 
that in your JavaScript.

Sounds exciting!

Best Regards,
Brent Fraser


Brian Fischer wrote:
> As long as the data provider could publish the data in one of these "Raster Layer" formats that OpenLayers supports.  http://docs.openlayers.org/library/layers.html   Then GeoMOOSE could be enhanced to view one of those type of base layers.  Currently GM only supports WMS, MapServer, Google, ArcGIS Server REST API and Bing layer types.  We have a client that is paying us to add tilecache this month.  If the State is publishing the layers in the standard google tile format then you should be able to use it right out of the box.  I don't know much about the google earth server to know if it publishing tiles in a 2D or 3D tile format.
> 
> You may run into limitations on printing if that is a business need.  Currently GM does not support printing to PDF with any tiled format.
> 
> Brian Fischer, CFM  GIS Project Manager
> Houston Engineering, Inc.
> Phone: Direct: 763-493-6664 / W: 763.493.4522 / M: 763.229.2734
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Forsman [mailto:Johan.Forsman at LA.GOV] 
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:32 PM
> To: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Geomoose-users] Extension of GM/OpenLayers Google capabilities?
> 
> All:
> 
> Please pardon the very loose thoughts here, not working with much and looking for some ideas.
> 
> I have client access to a state-owned enterprise version Google Earth server. We use a version of Google Earth Enterprise Client and provide individual user credentials to gain access to the base imagery and custom layers.
> 
> I thought it may be useful to have access to the base imagery from my GM2.2 installation also, as the aerials are high resolution (to about 6").
> 
> Provided I can even convince the server administrator to allow this type of access, has anyone on the list done something like this or can you guys think of a possible approach? Can the OpenLayers Google infrastructure be customized to enable this functionality?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> /Johan.
> 
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