[OpenLayers-Users] Saving with a Google Maps base layer

[Tom B]

Has anyone had a chance to try this out?  Gregor, any luck with getting R&D
funding, by any chance?  If not, I might go ahead and take a crack at it,
since it is something our map will eventually need.

Thanks,
Tom


Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> Gregor at HostGIS wrote:
>> Chris Adams wrote:
>>> How about this?
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/
>>
>> Hey, nice!
>>
>> I do see 1 issue with some uses: "640x640 is the largest image size 
>> allowed" So you may have to figure up, say, 4 references points within 
>> the image and make those queries to get the images. Of course, that 
>> means multiple "Powered by Google" texts.
>>
>> The use of viewport, looks as if it would return an image not matching 
>> your requested bounds, so computing how to blit that into your final 
>> product may not be feasible.
>>
>> Fascinating idea, though. I will contact one of our customers who does 
>> use Google Maps under OL and who has been wanting to print them, and 
>> see whether he'll fund 1-3 hours of R&D. If he does, I'll be updating 
>> the Printing page.
>>
> One possibility, is to align the 640x640 tiles to the bottom left of the 
> viewport, blit the bottom left most one fully, and underneath that one 
> display the other tiles with enough overlap as too remove the extra 
> Google copyright messages. Once the images have been combined, you're 
> only distributing a single image, which has the proper copyright. So I 
> don't think it would violate the TOS, although I'm by no means a legal 
> expert.
> 
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