RE: [mapguide-users] It´s possible use google maps as base map in a MG application

[Jason Birch]

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".