SV: [mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:04:59AM +0200, Niels-Peter Jensen wrote:
> 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 ?

You are wrong on that.

> At least, thats this is what the Openlayers community thinks.

That is incorrect. OpenLayers uses the Google Maps API -- we do not 
use the tiles directly. We only access the Google Maps data through their
Javascript API, in a browser. 
 
> I think it would be a very nice if that could be accomplished with MapServer
> too.

MapServer can't do the same thing in any practical manner.

-- 
Christohper Schmidt
OpenLayers Core Developer

> 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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