With the advent of the Bing WMS service, that will be the best solution, it appears (for now).
Mike On 8/26/09 3:01 PM, "Christopher Schmidt" <crschm...@metacarta.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:25:11PM -0400, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote: >> What about using the Google Maps static API and making multiple calls and >> tiling? Is that within the TOS? > > The Google Maps static API doesn't let you pass in a bounding box, it lets > you pas in a 'center and zoom'. The resulting tile will not always be > centered exactly on that point such that it can be tiled, based on what > I understand: Requests are still based around a grid, it's just not one > that's obvious, iiuc. > > That said, I have no idea if this is within the Terms of Use. > > It also has other side effects; Google logo on each tile, etc. so it's not > a great solution even if it does work, but would probably be better for > desktop solutions which have a single view that they want to display > data over, as I understand it. > > Regards, _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
