topic Re: Overlay a map over google map image in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

Overlay a map over google map image

xariaD — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:45:19 GMT

Hello,

Is it possible to overlay a map (a .mxd map created in ArcMap) over a google maps image.
We wish to extract the relevant image from google maps.( I don't know how) but suppose say we have a satellite image of the relevant map then can we overlay our maps on the image?

Second option, are we able to save a google map offline, coz the system will not have interent access. If so, then; we have an ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer and feature layer on an existing application. We wish to overlay these two layers on the google map.
Possible??? How?

Re: Overlay a map over google map image

DominiqueBroux — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:56:54 GMT

Rex Hansen blogged about that here : http://rexdotnet.blogspot.com/2010/09/use-google-maps-with-arcgis-silverlight.html

Re: Overlay a map over google map image

dotMorten_esri — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:00:06 GMT

Perhaps this is what you are looking for: http://help.arcgis.com/EN/webapi/javascript/gmaps/index.html
AFAIK this is also the only 'legal' way to do it.

Re: Overlay a map over google map image

xariaD — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:15:05 GMT

There are a few legal implications to keep in mind when using the Static Maps API:
The application must run in a Web browser (see 10.8). This means you cannot use it in a WPF, Silverlight out-of-browser, or Windows Phone application.

So the static map API can not be used with WPF application 😞

The ArcGIS Extension for the Google Maps API is also for webpages. 😞
So if the application is not a web based application, there is no way of using Google maps???

Re: Overlay a map over google map image

dotMorten_esri — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:08:08 GMT

I didn't say there wasn't any way to do it. All I said was that there is no way to do it that complies with Google's Terms of Use (creating a google maps layer for the Silverilght API is actually VERY simple - apart from the lawyers part).

Can't you just use the Bing Maps layer instead? The data is just as good (if not even better) than Google's in many areas, and they are way less restrictive when it comes to using their data in 3rd party apps.

Re: Overlay a map over google map image

xariaD — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:43:45 GMT

I am not the decision maker here 😞
We wish to use image from Google.
How can we extract panoramic images from the google staellite view? And then how to convert those images to a layer to overlay our maps?

Re: Overlay a map over google map image

xariaD — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:22:50 GMT

Any inputs? Please.