Is pretty straightforward ( connecting to a wms source), What we are My point is, since this "product" uses a functionality in mapinfo that I also agree that the makers of MapperG were very smart in makin this Then again, Google Satellite data has it'sĭrawbacks, but at that price, one would be in a bad position to I agree that 400$ is not that much to have google map satelliteīackdrop in Mipro. > Unless there is one that is free but not advertised anywhere? > interested in commercialising a WMS service. > I am guessing this company saw the opportunity and that google is not > money goes to google and then why buy a product, all we need is the > I am wondering why I should pay 400$ for this product. > I recently stumbled on a commercial product called MapperG that seems > -Sure here is the url of the WMS from google! > Saw a couple of posts regarding how to bring in Google maps satellite > Subject: is there a WMS feed of google maps I can connect to using > exactly the same price as a GE Pro licence.
> How interesting that the price you are quoting is > Pitney Bowes Business Insight - MapInfo > Of course that might depend on the licensing > To be able to use satellite data of the entire world within MapInfo Pro? > To: Subject: Re: is there a WMS feed of google maps I can connect to using MIpro > From: [mailto: On Behalf Of Peter Horsbøll Møller Longer-term timelapses of the surface of our planet can be found on Google Earth Timelapse (or through another weekend project of mine, namely a Twitter bot that posts randomly selected timelapses off it), but what's available there doesn't reach the high resolution of Google Maps (and isn't available for 45-degree views).On Apr 29, 6:45 am, "Andrew Hare" wrote: This kind of imagery looks great wherever skyscrapers are around – say, in New York City:īecause Google regularly removes the oldest available versions, all of this is rather ephemeral – a year from now (which, at the time of writing, was July 2021), the invocations of this tool that have created the GIFs above may yield totally different results. It's also fun to look at airports and center pivot irrigation fields through the lens this tool provides:Īs an alternative to the usual straight-down imagery, which is great for navigating but obscures the verticality of buildings and structures, Google Maps also provides oblique views shot at a 45-degree angle – from all of the four cardinal directions – for many urban areas. There's usually two or three different views of any given area available in the "version history", which can yield neat 3D effects (the attributes contain the invocations used to generate them):įor areas of the world that have changed significantly recently, flipping through the imagery versions is almost like a timelapse – consider the port of Beirut before and after the 2020 explosion on the left, or the perpetually-over-budget-and-behind-schedule construction of the new Stuttgart central station on the right. Scroll down to learn how to set it up on your machine, or stay up here for some examples. This weekend project is based on ærialbot, a previous weekend project of mine. This Python-based tool automatically crawls its way through these versions, figuring out which provide unique imagery and downloading it for a user-defined (that's you! you get to define things!) area, eventually assembling it in the form of a GIF. The folks maintaining Google Maps regularly update the satellite imagery it serves its users, but outdated versions of the imagery are kept around for a year or two.