google earth images

[Gregor Mosheh]

> Thanks for your replies. Unless I am missing one of your points, you
> seem to be contradicting each other. Puneet says that you may not use
> Google Maps content in any application other than the Google Maps
> browser interface. But Gregor says that you are allowed to use Google
> Maps content in another application such as OpenLayers as long as you
> are not mirroring, etc.

Your question was about using Google Maps imagery in Mapserver, yeah?
Short answer: It'd have to be in a Mapserver format (WMS or GDAL or plain
raster) and that doesn't currently exist. Google shot down previous
attempts to make a Google-to-WMS gateway, on the grounds that it violated
their Terms.

For the real authority, I'd suggest going to the Google Maps API
Documentation and reading the terms of use -- go by their words and not
mine. And you can always check out OpenLayers and even contact them to see
how (or whether) they got around the legal issues.

I'd be interested (as would many others) to hear what you find: some
loophole, a sympathetic heart at Google, etc.