[Qgis-developer] Plugin repo: status

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi,

One lead is Ed Parsons: http://www.edparsons.com/ He was a keynote 
speaker at our Graphical Web conference: 
http://www.graphicalweb.org/2014/#presentation_42 - as far as I know he 
also attended Foss4G in Portland.

However, in my opinion, we should first establish the QGIS association 
to have a body that can negotiate with Google. Google was sponsoring our 
conference multiple times in the past - however, you need to fill out 
paper work. And for this you need to be a legal entity.

I would also recommend to first establish other contacts with Google 
before you ask them if you can legally access their tiles (which I am 
pretty sure they wouldn't allow anyway - because they did contracts with 
geodata providing companies which would disallow such use). A large 
share of Googles geodata was bought from other companies - and for this 
reason they cannot provide all of their data in the open. Like it or not.

Establishing a legal entity should really be a top priority of the PSC.

Andreas


On 20.01.2015 16:49, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Il 20/01/2015 16:42, Anita Graser ha scritto:
>
>> Wasn't there a plan to use some good connection to Google (they use
>> QGIS themselves after all) to finally get an official OK for the
>> OpenLayers plugin use case?
> If we do not have more direct contacts, we could ask ujaval, author of a
> plugin, and working at google.
> who could take the lead on this? maybe Gary?
> all the best.