Using Google Maps

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Has anyone figured out how to use Google Maps as a WMS server. I heard
from a classmate that had, but we were unable to find any info online.



On 5/3/05, Giridhar Manepalli <gmanepal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Andy. I liked it. I still have to think about using that
> somehow in the mapserver context.
> 
> On 5/3/05, Andy Canfield <andy.canfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To all,
> >     I have created an example of how to use Google Maps in your own web
> > pages for routing, geocoding, directions etc. I have a sample web page and
> > all the code is within that page. I'm sure once folks see what I'm doing
> > they will be able to add it to their own Mapserver pages fairly easily. I am
> > going to try and add the page to this e-mail as a .zip file. If my gmail
> > strips it out please feel free to e-mail me and I will send you a copy of
> > the zip file from another account. The source will show you how to feed an
> > address to Google Maps and get back the Lat, Lon of that address. It will
> > also show how to feed Google Maps a from and to route request and get back
> > the directions and the polyline coordinates of the route. The source code is
> > intended as example only and I leave it up to you to how you want to add
> > that data to your Mapserver implementations. Google Maps does have
> > restrictions to using their API so you must abide by them if you decide to
> > implement this example. If there are any errors in the source please let me
> > know so I can fix them. So far I have only tested this with Mozilla and IE6.
> > Thank you,
> > Andy
> >
>