What's the best OUTPUTFORMAT for ECW-files using WMS

Steven De Vriendt gisaalter at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 23 13:03:10 EDT 2007


I'm aware of that, what I want to know is how these images are
served to Maps and Earth...

On 4/23/07, Gregor Mosheh <gregor at hostgis.com> wrote:
> > On a side note, are WMS-images delivered on the same way like f.i.
> > google maps, earth do that or should I say is Google Earth some sort
> > of great WMS-client...sorry if this is not relevant to the original
> > question, though it's interesting to know.
>
> Google Earth can read WMS, yes. But that great imagery is not WMS; it's
> some proprietary Google format, with some nasty Terms of Use behind them.
> This keeps coming up, folks wanting to load Google Earth's data via WMS,
> but sadly it can't be...
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