google earth images

P Kishor punk.kish at GMAIL.COM
Mon Apr 16 12:00:11 EDT 2007


Gregor may be correct, I might be wrong. Best is to consult Google's
TOS directly.

On 4/16/07, Richard Greenwood <richard.greenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> Puneet, Gregor;
>
> Thanks for your replies. Unless I am missing one of your points, you
> seem to be contradicting each other. Puneet says that you may not use
> Google Maps content in any application other than the Google Maps
> browser interface. But Gregor says that you are allowed to use Google
> Maps content in another application such as OpenLayers as long as you
> are not mirroring, etc.
>
> So I'm still confused. Quoted text from Puneet and Gregor below:
>
> On 4/16/07, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In other words, Google Maps data can be used inside only a Google Maps
> > application, but other data can also be used inside such an
> > application. However, Google Maps data may not be used inside any
> > other application as that violated Google's TOS.
>
> On 4/16/07, Gregor Mosheh <gregor at hostgis.com> wrote:
> > With OpenLayers, you're using Google Maps content directly (along with
> > other content, which has always been okay).
>
> Rich
>
> --
> Richard Greenwood
> richard.greenwood at gmail.com
> www.greenwoodmap.com
>


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