RE: [mapguide-users] It´s possible use google maps as base map in a MG application
Jason Birch
Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca
Wed Mar 19 11:20:07 EDT 2008
As long as you use Google's APIs, you can embed their maps in any web-facing application.
OpenLayers does this for Google Maps, and at some point Fusion (which uses OpenLayers) is intended to be able to access any of the layer-types in OpenLayers. This functionality has not been exposed yet though.
Paul mentioned that it would be possible to add a Google Maps layer into a Fusion site now if you had a good understanding of the Fusion code structure, but that it wasn't something that he wanted to document/support. So... if you want to add a GMaps layer to Fusion, you're pretty much on your own figuring it out.
I would strongly suggest not using Fusion with MGE2008 though; it's really slow in some cases because of the map render call that Fusion uses. This call was extended to be faster with MGOS 2.0 (and I'm assuming MGE2009, though I don't have access to that code).
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Ng
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] It´s possible use google maps as base map in a MG application
I do believe this would violate google's terms of service.
If you want to incorporate google imagery, you would have to do it the other
way round, with Google Maps/Earth as the "frontend" and MapGuide as the
"backend".
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