[OpenLayers-Users] ArcGIS online ToS

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi,

Bryan McBride posted a bit on Twitter about this, but it seems that ESRI's
ToS [http://www.esri.com/legal/pdfs/e-800-termsofuse.pdf] does not allow
third-party clients to access the web services (however this seems to
differ among services since some are licensed CCA instead).

Section 4, item f of the ToS reads:

f. Provide others with access to Web Services through non-Esri software;

So this probably means that we are validating their terms by some of our
examples, especially:

http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.11/examples/arcgiscache_ags.html

which uses:

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f2498e3d0ff642bfb4b155828351ef0e

However this example does not work at the moment. But we might need to
take some action in this regard.

Best regards,
Bart