[mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Openlayers applications are not cascading Google Maps tiles but client applications are requesting them from Google API, directly from the users computers.

I think that chapter 10 in the document at http://code.google.com/intl/fi-FI/apis/maps/terms.html says rather clear that you are not allowed to serve Google Map data through your Mapserver.

-Jukka Rahkonen-



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> Niels-Peter Jensen
> Lähetetty: 26. elokuuta 2009 10:05
> Vastaanottaja: 'Christopher Schmidt'
> Kopio: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Aihe: SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps
> 
> 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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