On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:40:19PM -0500, Sebastian Benthall wrote: > > > > You shall not: > > > > (ix) use the stand-alone geocoder for any use other than displaying > > Yahoo! Maps or displaying points on Yahoo! Maps; > > > > http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/maps/mapsapi/mapsapi-2141.html > > > > Bummer > > Does the Yahoo Geocoder control ensure that the results are being > > plotted on a Yahoo! Map in some way? > > > Alas, it does not. > > > > Barring that, I'm hesitant to do > > something which seems to cleary violate the Yahoo! API terms of use, > > unless I"m misunderstanding something... > > > > Yeah, that makes sense. Although I'm not sure that including the code > itself in an addin would violate the TOS, since is that "using" the Yahoo! > API? Maybe having an example there would though.
Correct, having the code exist is not in violation of the ToS. My concern is just re: pushing people towards something that's not allowed -- for example, although it is trivially simple to do so, we don't document how to use Google Maps tiles without the Google Maps API. > Do you think it would be sufficient to include a warning in the class that > the geocoder shouldn't be used except with a Yahoo! Map? Then the example > could be changed to use the Yahoo! Maps base layer. That would be a reasonable approach, though it might be even nicer to check whether there is a Yahoo! layer in the map when the control is added, and raise an error messag eof some sort otherwise... I just worry about doing things that skirt around ToSes too easily... Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
