Just curious: how come the Cesium Hello World offers Bing imagery but not Google? This must be related to why GoogleEarthImageryProvider doesn't work with the public datafeed.
Thanks!
Ahmed
Google does not license their data for access outside of the Google ecosystem. It’s simply not possible for us to legally use it.
Bing is the default, but Cesium can use a variety of different imagery or you can plug in your own.
Google does not license their data for access outside of the Google ecosystem. It's simply not possible for us to legally use it.
Got it! Please forgive me for asking you this, but I can import Google imagery inside QGIS (free open-source GIS app) via a plug-in. Is QGIS (or this plug-in) violating Google's license? Or is there any way that Cesium could hypothetically use the same avenue that QGIS uses to display Google imagery? Many thanks for tolerating my silly questions.
I’m not very familiar with QGIS, but I believe any plug-in like that is violating Google’s license.Assuming this is the plug-in you are talking about: https://github.com/googlemaps/mapsengine-qgis-connector They are very clear in the README that using it is against your Google license agreement.
I'm not very familiar with QGIS, but I believe any plug-in like that is
violating Google's license.Assuming this is the plug-in you are talking
about: https://github.com/googlemaps/mapsengine-qgis-connector They are
very clear in the README that using it is against your Google license
agreement.
Sorry for not specifying this in my earlier email. No, it's the QGIS
OpenLayers plugin: http://hub.qgis.org/projects/openlayers -->
http://openlayers.org/ which doesn't advertise Google but the QGIS plugin
supports all of Google's imagery (physical, street, satellite, hybrid).
Thanks for checking, I'll be more careful with this.