It's a good thought and I had a Google engineer look into it, but ultimately we decided that there are too many internal Google dependencies for us to be able to open source it. Sorry.
(This happens a lot. For instance, we have our own internal string and file libraries, so when we open source we have to replace those with versions available externally. It's a lot of work.) Jon On Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 11:39:34 AM UTC-4, Randall Theobald wrote: > > No chance for an open source donation so we can host our own? > > > On Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 4:44:58 PM UTC-6, Jon Orwant wrote: >> >> Google Image Charts <https://developers.google.com/chart/image/> -- not >> to be confused with Google Charts <https://developers.google.com/chart/> >> -- is the free service at chart.googleapis.com that creates static >> charts. >> >> Its deprecation was announced back in 2012 >> <https://developers.googleblog.com/2012/04/changes-to-deprecation-policies-and-api.html>, >> >> so in theory nobody should be using it now that it's 2019. >> >> Several technical dependencies have made maintaining Google Image Charts >> unsustainable going forward, so it will be *turned off on March 14, 2019* >> . >> >> There is no effective way to identify or contact users of the service >> other than this group, so to alert them we will be creating outages: first >> a short one, and then a longer one. >> >> The short outage will be for an hour on *Wednesday, February 13, at >> approximately 1pm Eastern Standard Time*. >> The long outage will be for several hours on *Tuesday, March 5, at >> approximately 10am Eastern Standard Time*. >> >> If you are still using Google Image Charts, we recommend: >> >> >> - >> >> Switching to Google Charts, an actively developed JavaScript library >> for interactive charts and can render many common chart types as static >> PNGs. >> However, Google Image Charts provides some "charts" that Google Charts >> does >> not, such as QR codes, LaTeX equations, and road signs. For those we have >> no suggested replacement. >> - >> >> Using another charting library such as D3 <http://d3js.org> or >> Dygraphs <http://dygraphs.com/> (both JavaScript). >> - >> >> Generating all the charts you'll ever need before March 14 and >> storing them yourself. (Many users of Google Image Charts create the same >> exact chart over and over, which is slower and more wasteful than >> generating the chart once and storing it locally.) >> >> >> On a personal note, I've enjoyed maintaining the service over the years, >> and I'm happy to have watched the much more powerful Google Charts leapfrog >> it in capability. >> >> Jon >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Chart API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-chart-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-chart-api@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-chart-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
