AW: Re: [Qgis-user] google wms
Patrice Vetsel
ubuntu at kagou.fr
Mon Feb 8 01:34:50 PST 2010
Le 08/02/10 09:00, Düster Horst a écrit :
>>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.
>
Sorry but I can't understand how to use your attached file :/
Regards
Patrice Vetsel
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> 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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