Indeed. BTW, for a number of years already, the Loadstone GPS project (www.loadstone-gps.com) has attempted to get around the lack of free map data, being in a situation not unlike the one we seem to be in now until those licensing issues are resolved. From http://www.loadstone-gps.com/about/
> Loadstone GPS allows a user to save points of interest and affectively > create a map of the environment. Using this map a user is informed about > his or her relative position to these points and knows the heading and > distance to these points. This way Loadstone GPS omits the use of > (expensive) professionally designed maps while providing all of the > orientational information that is needed to move around in the environment. but clearly that leaves a lot to be desired before it can form a viable alternative, especially since the Loadstone GPS POI database is still very incomplete and sparse. On Sep 21, 3:14 am, JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 20, 5:21 pm, plusminus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> When I inquired, > Google is not > > currently doing one-off contracts for specific developers in > > liu of its standard Terms and Conditions. > > +/- you are asking all the right questions - > > So it seems Google's position puts into question the usefulness of the > entire maps API? The June 08 deal with TeleAtlas reportedly includes > Android. At that point it was already clear that there was substantial > interest by independent developers in the platform. Except for running > the standard maps app, and some trivial third party apps, I wonder > what said agreement is worth if Google does not offer standard > licensing terms or a process to reach an agreement on an individual > basis to allow the development of relevant apps. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
