[mapserver-users] Mapserver consuming Google Maps

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

With the advent of the Bing WMS service, that will be the best solution, it
appears (for now).

Mike


On 8/26/09  3:01 PM, "Christopher Schmidt" <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:25:11PM -0400, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote:
>> What about using the Google Maps static API and making multiple calls and
>> tiling? Is that within the TOS?
> 
> The Google Maps static API doesn't let you pass in a bounding box, it lets
> you pas in a 'center and zoom'. The resulting tile will not always be
> centered exactly on that point such that it can be tiled, based on what
> I understand: Requests are still based around a grid, it's just not one
> that's obvious, iiuc.
> 
> That said, I have no idea if this is within the Terms of Use.
> 
> It also has other side effects; Google logo on each tile, etc. so it's not
> a great solution even if it does work, but would probably be better for
> desktop solutions which have a single view that they want to display
> data over, as I understand it.
> 
> Regards,