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Posted by mhanna on March 6, 2007, 6:24 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Jan 18, 1:35 pm, dust...@gmail.com wrote:
> Yeah... we (www.cubewerx.com) built a WMS gateway intogooglemapsa
> few months ago. They asked us to stop.
>
>
>
> jesdial wrote:
> > Really i think the problem is that this is not a legal use of the
> >GoogleMapsAPI.
> > See at:
> >http://www.google.es/apis/maps/terms.html
>
> > Jes=FAs de Diego
> > jesd...@gmail.com
>
> > willem van deursen wrote:
> > > Hello Frederik,
>
> > > Recently, I had the same ideas and I was trying to achieve what you a=
re
> > > writing here. My ideas came from Manifold (www.manifold.org). Their G=
IS
> > > program can link to theGoogleMapsimage servers anddownloadthe
> > > content into the current GIS project. They mention: "Third parties
> > > publish Manifold image server modules that allow use of other image
> > > servers in addition to Microsoft Virtual Earth. Any image server mod=
ule
> > > that conforms to the Manifold Image Server interface will work."
> > > (http://www.manifold.net/toolbar/)
> > > Googling I found the mentioning of another piece of software that mig=
ht
> > > be of interest
> > >http://www.spatialdatalogic.com/cs/blogs/brian_flood/archive/2005/07/.=
.=2E
>
> > > However, I could not find the real drivers here.
>
> > > The problem seems to be more related to not using the right terms to
> > > search ingoogle, than that it is related to the unavailability of the
> > > drivers.
>
> > > Please keep me informed (wvandeursenATcarthagoDOTnl) if you find some=
thing
>
> > > Hope this helps a little bit
>
> > > Willem
>
> > > Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > > > Hello,
>
> > > > while working with a simple charting application that had the
> > > > capability to read background images from a WMS server, I thought
> > > > it would be nice to be able to accessGooglesatellite imagery in
> > > > that way.
>
> > > > Searching the web, I only found a few references to cool Javascript
> > > > implementations of the reverse mechanism - retrieving things from a
> > > > WMS server and serving them on a web site together withGoogle
> > > >Maps(e.g.http://johndeck.blogspot.com/).
>
> > > > There was one single reference to that I wanted ("CubeWerx releases
> > > > OGC Connector forGoogleMaps") but that seemed to refer to a
> > > > commercial and little-documented piece of software.
>
> > > > So I dug into theGoogleMapsAPI and built something for myself.
> > > > It is basically a very very limited WMS service that takes a WMS
> > > > query, transforms it into a temporary HTML page containingGoogleAPI
> > > > calls, then executes a browser in an invisible window displaying
> > > > said temporary page, dumps the browser window contents into a
> > > > jpeg file and serves it back to the caller. All this is done by
> > > > strictly adhering toGoogle'sAPI, with no reverse engineering
> > > > required, and it seems to produce exact results.
>
> > > > It sounds like a mess, and it is a mess; takes 10 seconds or so to
> > > > serve an image and requires careful attention until it works.
>
> > > > I would like to solicit your advice on the following two points:
>
> > > > 1. Provided that this "WMS server" is not used to re-publishGoogle
> > > > material, but only to make it accessible for personal use as in my
> > > > case - do you belive it violates any ofGoogle'sterms? If this
> > > > CubeWerx company sells something similar, then the process cannot
> > > > be wrong, or do they have some kind of special permission?
>
> > > > 2. Is there any free software or a combination of multiple pieces
> > > > of free software that does what I need (provide a WMS interface to
> > > > good satellite data)? It needn't beGoogle, I'd settle for anything
> > > > of similar quality. I have seen the landsat data at onearth.jpl.nas=
a=2Egov
> > > > but their resolution is very limited.
>
> > > > I'd like to publish what I have built in order to improve it by
> > > > exposing it to different users, but if it was blatantly violating
> > > >Google'sideas of fair use or if there was something else aready
> > > > available, then this would probably be a waste of time.
>
> > > > Thank you for yours,
> > > > Frederik- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
This is an old topic but I have to ask. Does anyone have any idea how
Carbon Tools (http://www.thecarbonportal.net/) gets away with their
use of Google Maps and others? I read somewhere that they can even
provide the map information via web services. Interesting!
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