Re: Support for quadkeys

[Jiří Techet <techet gmail com>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> > <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
> > > > Hello Mathieu,
> > > >
> > > > the question is - is this quadkeys location encoding usable for
> > > > something else than Bing and if not, is it legal to use Bing tiles
> > > > with libchamplain? I haven't searched much but found this
> > > >
> > > > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d379de41-3e41-479b-b904-c0a1441ba869/bing-map-tile-server-direct-access-through-xy-and-zoom-values-license-details-needed
> > > >
> > > > which doesn't look very encouraging. Frankly if it's used only by Bing
> > >
> > > I don't think this itself should be an argument against merging such a
> > > patch. Not saying that you implied that it is but just wanted to keep
> > > things clear.
> >
> > Well, my point was that if it really isn't legal to use Bing for some
> > reason and if quadkeys is only usable for Bing, then this patch is
> > only useful if you use it in a non-compliant way, which is something I
> > don't want to support.
> >
> > > > and there are any licensing issues,
> > >
> > > That is something we really should be concerned about. The post you
> > > pointed to is about a corporate heavy-duty usage of Bing. I'd imagine
> > > that easily going to illegal space.
> > >
> > > We gotta read these terms before we can decide if this is going to
> > > easily lead into illegal space or not:
> > > http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html
> >
> > Good luck ;-). I'm afriad that even if I read that I won't understand
> > all the legal implications it has...
>
> You are correct, reading through those I'm not getting any clear picture.
>
> Having said that, maybe we should seek help from our director who is a
> lawyer by profession, Karen Sandler? If you don't mind, I'll forward
> the info to her.

Would be great, thanks.

Jiri