On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:20:30AM +0200, Till Adams wrote: > Niels-Peter, > > I really do not see the need for this. > > All things, which are fun regarding Mapserver are not possible with > GoogleMaps, e.g. reprojection or define your map layout in an easy way. > Even if you would write some piece of code, which would enable mapserver > getting that google tiles as a datasource you'll have at least a slower > service than pure google and - if reprojecting the google stuff - you'll > have "unreadable" maps with distorted labels. > > So beside the fact Chris already mentioned - I think if you have a > client, which is able to show Mapserver services AND google map services > together, you're fine, or what is your intention?
Many clients *can't* do this, and it does cause a problem for those clients. For example, it's difficult for qgis to consume Google Maps tiles, last I looked, but it can consume a WMS easily, so you can imagine using MapServer as the integration point. Web-based clients aren't the only types of clients that MapServer WMSes have, and are the only clients that can consume Google Maps. -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users