[OSGeo Africa] RE: Google maps API - whats legal?

[Grant Slater]

On 24 August 2010 15:16, Jeremiah Kamau <kamaujeremiah at google.com> wrote:
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> From what I understand:
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> In any case, Google does not get your data hence it is not search-able on Google Maps or even Google Search - no need to worry about this. Feel free to go ahead and use the service.

No, I believe you are mistaken. Google is granted rights to use the
data including specifically search. See section 11.1 of the Terms of
Service: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html
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Licenses from You to Google:
Content License. Google claims no ownership over Your Content, and you
retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Your
Content. By submitting, posting or displaying Your Content in the
Service, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide,
royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify,
translate, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute Your
Content through the Service and as search results through Google
Services. This license is solely for the purpose of enabling Google to
operate the Service, to promote the Service (including through public
presentations), and to index and serve such content as search results
through Google Services. If you are unable or unwilling to provide
such a license to Your Content, please see the FAQ for information on
configuring your Maps API Implementation to opt out.
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Also there is a restriction on displaying live tracking information on
the map. See section 10.9.

Regards
 Grant