FW: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer as WMS Client for Microsoft Virtual Earth Raster Layer

[Barend K ö bben]

True. The way to go, I think, is use a multi-datasource client that can be a
client to both proprietary services such as Google Maps and Virtual Earth
(or Mapserver 'native')  and to Open Standards compliant services like WMS
and WFS (So also Mapserver in WMS and WFS 'mode').

OpenLayers of course is the prime example of that: http://openlayers.org


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Barend Köbben
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On 22-10-2007 09:42, "Zhonghai Wang" <zhonghaiw at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> I don't think so. In Google Map you can only use MapServer as a WMS server,
> but not as a Client. I think it's similar in Virtual Earth. That is to say,
> you can only pass your data to Google Map / Virtual Earth, but not retrieve
> data from Google Map / Virtual Earth and integrated them into MapServer. In
> Google Map, getting Google Map data into MapServer violates the Google Map
> TOU.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Zhonghai
> 
> 
> On 10/22/07, Hong <ljfong at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Has anyone tried setting up MapServer to pull raster layers out of MS
>> Virtual
>> Earth? I have looked around and cannot find any discussion or example on
>> how
>> to do this. If anyone has tried this and can point me in the right
>> direction
>> in terms of reading, examples, and so on, I would really appreciate it.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Hong
>> 

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