[OpenLayers-Users] Accessing Google Tile independent from their API in OL3? (possible for paying customer?)

[Andreas Hocevar]

The solution you found is illegal. It violates Google's Terms of Use.
I added a comment to that answer on Stack Overflow pointing to the
section of the terms. If in doubt, get in touch with your Google sales
representative to see if you can negotiate a special agreement. But I
know of no one who was able to do that.

Andreas.

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 10:43 AM, drno <riga0078 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Using map from tile providers are common use-case in web mapping: overlaying
> internally-hosted WMS/WFS layer on top of Google Maps/OSM/Bing Maps. These
> are easy in OpenLayers 2. However, this feat -especially Google Maps- is not
> supported anymore in OL3. The book "OpenLayers 3 Beginner's Guide" page 107:
> OpenLayers 2 had some third-party mapping APIs embedded into its core,
> enabling you to use its maps inside your Openlayers-based application.
> Nowadays, for better decoupling of OpenLayers API from third-party APIs, the
> OpenLayers 3 team choose to have no support for other mapping APIs that tie
> together tiles and an associated JavaScript API library. Why this decision?
> One of the main goals of OpenLayers 3 was to rewrite OpenLayers 2, making
> its API cleaner. The support for Google Maps API in OpenLayers 2 has also
> put a significant maintenance burden on both library and application
> developers, to keep up with changes of the Google Maps API. To avoid this in
> OpenLayers 3, the support for Google Maps using Google Maps API is
> nonexistent. However, Google does provide its tiles independent from their
> API, but only to paying customers. Fortunately, you have more alternatives
> to Google Maps API (Bing, OSM). I found this awesome solution in OpenLayers.
> I tried it myself that it works with OpenLayers 4.1.1 and Leaflet 0.7.7. Can
> anyone elaborate more on: 1. how OL3 can access Google Maps tile independent
> from their API ? 2. whether the above solution in stackoverflow is the
> answer of my question #1? 3. what sort of payment/contract ? Is it the same
> with the Google Maps API Premium ?
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