SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

Niels-Peter Jensen npj at i-gis.dk
Wed Aug 26 03:04:59 EDT 2009


Yes, it could be a violation of terms, but not if the copyright notice and
links still is there - or am I wrong on that ?
At least, thats this is what the Openlayers community thinks.
I think it would be a very nice if that could be accomplished with MapServer
too.

Niels-Peter


-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at metacarta.com] 
Sendt: 25. august 2009 17:14
Til: Niels-Peter Jensen
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Emne: Re: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:42:27PM +0200, Niels-Peter Jensen wrote:
> Hi mapserver users
> 
> Does anybody know if there has been done work to let MapServer consume 
> Google maps ? I know that this is possible in OpenLayers (an example:
> http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/google.html), but with MapServer I can
> only se it the other way around, MapeServer serving maps til a GoogleMaps
> application by WMS.

Doing so would be a violation of the terms of use of Google Maps.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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