Mashups mit OpenStreetMap, Virtual Earth and Google Maps

today I was asked again for external (WMS) maps, which may be used as FOI or Basemaps in Oracle Maps/Mapviewer.
Some time ago Friedhold Matz did some extraordinary research work and "hacks" on that.
Feel free to visit his BLOG on the mashups.
It is concerning mashups with
- OpenStreetMaps/OpenLayers
- Google Maps
- Virtual Earth
- Google Maps Street View
Thank you Friedhold again !

Good Luck !

Oracle Maps uses "Openstreetmap" as WMS

Thanks to the analysis work and "hacking" done by my colleague Carsten Czarski I am pleased to present the Openstreetmap solution (free maps...!!) being integrated in Oracle Maps utilising an Openstreetmap WMS service provided by the WHEREGROUP.

In the Oracle Mapviewer it looks like:



Here are some screenshots of the setup of the "Map Tile Layer Definition":



The "cutted" url is : http://osm.wheregroup.com/cgi-bin/mapserv

you will have to use SRID 4326 - I used 10 zoom-levels:



In Oracle Application Express with Oracle Maps it looks like:

A tutorial (in German) can be found on the German APEX Community site.

"Firewall challenges":
The OSM-server resides in the Internet. If your MapViewer Installation is behind a firewall, you'll  need to define your Proxy-Server... this has to be done in the file
"MapViewerConfig.xml" or here:
MapViewer Admin GUI --> Configuration --> search for "Web Proxy Settings"

And the "check-box" for "HTTP Proxy required" has to be set in the MapTileLayer configuration