[Qgis-developer] new plugin "Load TMS Layer"

Pirmin Kalberer pi_ml at sourcepole.com
Thu Apr 10 08:56:06 PDT 2014


Hi Etienne,

Am Mittwoch, 9. April 2014, 21.56:00 schrieb Etienne Tourigny:
> I meant heads up... not thumbs up
> 
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Etienne Tourigny 
<etourigny.dev at gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hi
> > Thanks for the thumbs up.
> > Can you explain if using Google Maps with the OpenLayers plugin respects
> > their TOS? Do you have any links for Google TOS using both tiles and web
> > view (used in OpenLayers)?

Search for "you must not access map tiles" in the TOS 
(https://developers.google.com/maps/terms). That's why the OpenLayers plugin 
is using only the Javascript API with a WebKit Browser.

Pirmin


> > 
> > thanks Etienne
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Pirmin Kalberer 
<pi_ml at sourcepole.com>wrote:
> >> Hi Etienne,
> >> 
> >> Am Montag, 7. April 2014, 18.45:05 schrieb Etienne Tourigny:
> >> > I have put together a simple plugin to load a number of TMS layers
> >> > using
> >> > the GDAL TMS mini-driver [1]. I see it as a simple alternative to the
> >> 
> >> more
> >> 
> >> > complete OpenLayers plugin.
> >> > 
> >> > Code is at github for now [2]. Any suggestions are welcome (including
> >> > plugin name). Also if you have any other working examples please let me
> >> > know.
> >> > 
> >> > Supported layers are OSM, Google, and other examples given in [1]
> >> 
> >> (except
> >> 
> >> > those that don't work).
> >> 
> >> Using Google Maps via TMS URL's is against their TOS. That's also the
> >> reason,
> >> why I didn't approve the similar Tile Map Scale Plugin [1] yet.
> >> 
> >> [1] https://github.com/datalyze-solutions/TileMapScaleLevels
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Pirmin
> >> 
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