[Qgis-user] Ideas for QGIS plugin?

[Christopher Barker]

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

you wouldn't need to do all that -- google tiles are a regular old web 
service a simple http GET will get them, you just need to know the URL 
scheme.

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

I've always been confused by that. But anyway, you could do it with Open 
Street Map tiles.

-Chris




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