[Qgis-user] google wms

[Alex Mandel]

I think we figured out previously that it is now acceptable under the
license, but I think you need to have an api key. Note solving this
would also allow for things like OpenStreetMap tile overlays too which
have much more permissive licensing.

Others have asked about Tile support in general as many data source use
Tilecache or the Geoserver equivalent too.

FYI, gvSIG had a Summer of Code student working on this same thing last
year. Might be able to learn from that.

Alex

Andreas Neumann wrote:
> Another restriction is the fixed projection of the tiles and the licence
> restrictions.
> 
> However, given that in some regions, Google maps is one of the very few
> data sources available with ease, it is probably worth the effort.
> 
> I am not sure if the Google maps licence would allow the embedding of
> Google maps data in Desktop GIS?
> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
> On Fri, February 5, 2010 5:59 pm, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
>> M.E.Dodd wrote:
>>> Is it possible to use google maps or the MS equivalent in qgis,
>>> presumably not?
>> Hi,
>>
>> no there is at this moment no such way to use those kind of maps. These
>> kind of services are called 'Tiled Map Services', and one of the
>> drawbacks of these are that (without othere rescaling clientside) they
>> serve only (map tile) images for fixed scales.
>>
>> We have been thinking about it at an earlier hackfest, but up untill now
>> nobody has started to work on it.
>>
>> Theoretically it would be feasible: just provide some 'tile-scheme' to a
>> WMS-T/TMS/-layer and provide the service url.
>> Then the layer could retrieve the 'capabilities' and from that on maybe
>> the map will be frozen to only the scales provided by this Tiled Map
>> Server (?).
>> Map-Libraries like openlayers also have this notion of either 'free
>> scaling' or 'fixed scales'.
>>
>> But somebody should pick up this glove :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Duivenvoorde
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