Hi William, yes, this makes your statement finally clear to me :)
Thanks for clarification! William . schrieb: > Hi Neil, the data providers usually don't let you redistribute the > data to other users, but they let you render a map and distribute the > images. For example the google base map was produced from hundreds of > vector layers, each with thousands and millions of points of vector > data. But the end user only gets the single rendered image and cannot > reconstruct the original data sets. The rendering is done on a server > and the end user cannot access the raw data. > > KML, GPoint, GPolyline, GPolygon are vector data formats which are > rendered on a browser. The raw vector data is streamed to the browser > and the shapes are rendered by SVG or VML. If someone wanted to save > the original data they could figure out a way of doing it. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
