Great, this sounds promising, at the very least. Many thanks for all the input on this; Gregor, definitely let us know how it goes if you're able to swing the development on it. This seems like something that might be of interest to many folks.
Thanks, Tom Christopher Schmidt-2 wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:59:05PM -0700, Gregor at HostGIS wrote: >> Chris Adams wrote: >> > How about this? >> > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ >> >> Hey, nice! >> >> I do see 1 issue with some uses: "640x640 is the largest image size >> allowed" So you may have to figure up, say, 4 references points within >> the image and make those queries to get the images. Of course, that >> means multiple "Powered by Google" texts. >> >> The use of viewport, looks as if it would return an image not matching >> your requested bounds, so computing how to blit that into your final >> product may not be feasible. > > In my experience, this is the case: you don't know what the actual > extent of the resulting image was. Maybe that's changed since I looked. > > -- Chris > >> Fascinating idea, though. I will contact one of our customers who does >> use Google Maps under OL and who has been wanting to print them, and see >> whether he'll fund 1-3 hours of R&D. If he does, I'll be updating the >> Printing page. >> >> -- >> HostGIS, Open Source solutions for the global GIS community >> Greg Allensworth - SysAdmin, Programmer, GIS Person, Security >> Network+ Server+ A+ Security+ >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@openlayers.org >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- > Christopher Schmidt > MetaCarta > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openlayers.org > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Saving-with-a-Google-Maps-base-layer-tp2736685p2738195.html Sent from the OpenLayers Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
