We’ve just implemented the Google layer. It appears there is branding on every tile. Can we set something such that we only get branding on one corner of the entire image? There is actually double branding: A “pretty” ‘Google’ label, and then uglier text that looks like it might have been overlaid by ThinkGeo?
I’ve attached a subset of the the image we are getting.
Can this be changed?
Google layer brands every tile
In the prior image, I was in “Terrain” mode. I’ve switched to Satellite here, and I’m getting FSA branding that really looks bad. I’m sure that is being added by Google. I don’t speak Google. Is there a setting that I can use to reduce this clutter?
Hi Ted,
According the announcement from Google at google.com/permissions/geoguidelines/attr-guide.html, maybe it’s not allowed, but I’m not sure if the enterprise license is ok for removing these logo, if you have a purchase from Google, can you do a confirm with them?
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
Johnny
I’ve reviewed the site and I have no issue with the attribution requirement. But they only require the attribution one time on the map. Not once per tile. On the Bing maps layer, you add an adornment layer that puts the attribute on the composite layer one time in the lower left corner. I was hoping that we might be able to do something like that in the Google maps layer.
Hi Ted,
Attribution is printed on every returned tile through GoogleMap static API. This is different from BingMaps in which the returned tile doesn’t have the attribution. The size of a tile is 640*640 for the free version or 2048*2048 for premier version. I’m not sure if premier version has the attribution on each tile as well (we didn’t have this so we never tried). Here as following is the differences between the 2 versions.
developers.google.com/maps/licensing
Generally I think Premier version might be the only way to probably fix this. Please let me know if you see any issues.
Troy