Ooops.... typo >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 In my opinion it is not 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
------------------------------------------------ Dr. Horst Düster Stv. Amtschef / GIS-Koordinator Kanton Solothurn Bau- und Justizdepartement Amt für Geoinformation SO!GIS Koordination Rötistrasse 4 CH-4501 Solothurn Telefon ++41(0)32 627 25 32 Mobil ++41(0)79 511 54 12 Telefax ++41(0)32 627 22 14 mailto:horst.dues...@bd.so.ch http://www.agi.so.ch -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Düster Horst Gesendet am: Montag, 8. Februar 2010 09:00 An: a.neumann; rdmailings Cc: qgis-user Betreff: AW: Re: [Qgis-user] google wms >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 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Horst Düster Stv. Amtschef / GIS-Koordinator Kanton Solothurn Bau- und Justizdepartement Amt für Geoinformation SO!GIS Koordination Rötistrasse 4 CH-4501 Solothurn Telefon ++41(0)32 627 25 32 Mobil ++41(0)79 511 54 12 Telefax ++41(0)32 627 22 14 mailto:horst.dues...@bd.so.ch http://www.agi.so.ch -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Andreas Neumann [mailto:a.neum...@carto.net] Gesendet am: Montag, 8. Februar 2010 08:16 An: Richard Duivenvoorde Cc: qgis-user@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 > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- Andreas Neumann http://www.carto.net/neumann/ http://www.svgopen.org/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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