[udig-devel] Integrate Google maps with Udig

[Vince Darley]

Another possibility might be to follow this approach:

http://interactiveearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/embed-google-earth-into-your.html

and embed a google earth render window into udig.  The issue then 
would be whether the Map view could be transparently drawn on top of 
this "layer".  Control of the google earth window would (at least on 
Windows) be done through the COM api.  This would of course restrict 
the projection to be the one used by google earth.

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Indeed direct access to google tiles is a no go, but there's nothing 
to stop using a javascript api/library (e.g. 'Rhino' which is written 
in Java) for this.  There are still restrictions on the _use_ of the 
data and certain kinds of uses of udig with such a layer would be 
disallowed (or would require the application developer to purchase an 
enterprise google maps api license).

cheers,

Vince.

At 16:46 02/04/2008, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>Direct access to the Google Maps and Google Earth tiles is verboten.
>Unless you also embed a Javascript interpreter in uDig so you can use
>their Javascript API and an API key.
>
>I heard at one time that direct access to Virtual Earth tiles was
>allowed, and there is a Worldwind plug-in that did that: not sure if
>it is still legal.
>
>You can of course do direct access of all the NASA data, which is voluminous.
>You can also direct access the Open Street Map tiles.
>
>P.
>
>On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:07 AM, andrea antonello
><andrea.antonello at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can imagine that there are licensing issues to release such a plugin
> >  from the community?
> >
> >  Andrea
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