AW: Re: [Qgis-user] google wms

[Düster Horst]

>I am not sure if the Google maps licence would allow the embedding of
>Google maps data in Desktop GIS?

In my opinion it allowed to use the free Google Maps with QGIS without
public access. 
http://code.google.com/intl/de-CH/apis/maps/terms.html#section_7_1

As an other option for you is to use OpenStreetMap. It is possible to
embed OSM in conjunction with GDAL 1.7.0 into QGIS. Try to use the
attached file as raster source with QGIS.


Regards
Horst

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Andreas Neumann [mailto:a.neumann at carto.net]
Gesendet am: Montag, 8. Februar 2010 08:16
An: Richard Duivenvoorde
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] google wms

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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