Re: [udig-devel] Fwd: Using Google Earth in uDig

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Currently there is a license restriction, google makes the data 
available via an AJAX api.

Several people have made a "bridge" between the google tile backend and 
the and the WMS standard that we do support. The result is impressive 
(but not legal).

So if you want something fun and legal make a renderer for the Nasa 
worldwind tile cache, or contribute to the recent WMS Tile research 
which our own Paul Ramsey is riding herd on.

If you really want that specific imagery you can of course buy it (or 
license it), if you want the performance and not the data we can talk 
about the tile solutions or you can set up MapServer with the blue 
marble dataset.

Cheers,
Jody
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