Re: A potentially unpopular question...

[Jiří Techet <techet gmail com>]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 18:44, Robert Park <rbpark exolucere ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
>> Yes, it should be possible (despite not being legal - you cannot use
>> the tiles in non-web applications according to the license). You can
>
> Are you certain of that? This page here implies differently:
>
> http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html
>
> It does say "The Maps API is a free service, available for any web
> site that is free to consumers.", but then under the 'Web Services'
> section it says "Use URL requests to access geocoding, directions,
> elevation, and places information from _client_applications_, and
> manipulate the results in JSON or XML."
>
> So I'm not really sure what to believe there.

See paragraph 10.8 in the license. I remember the Viking application
had to remove the google map support as well:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=491BC8DC.1010600%40gmail.com

Jiri

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