[Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

[Craig Leat]

Hi

Andreas Neumann wrote:
> I also thought it may be possible to use the Google maps data from within
> QGIS. One could probably use a hidden Webkit to make Google think it is a
> regular webbrowser that is requesting the tiles - and then merge and
> potentially reproject the GoogleMap tiles to use it as a regular
> background layer in QGIS.

Viking [1] offers google maps (in their various flavours) as a
background map and it's code is licensed under the GPL.

[1] http://viking.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

Jacolin Yves wrote:
> This is forbidden by the Google user licence.

Noted.

Craig