Thanks William, Looks like your working on similarly complex GI development with Google Maps API and GPS amongst other things and seem to have thought about and taken part in similar debates about the TOU.
I like your answer, not only because your the only person so far to believe the proposed work to be within the TOU, you also make a good point about the nature of the data being collected by the sensors, it is environmental and of the environment *surrounding*, external to the vehicle. We are not proposing any kind of direct, controlling connection between sensor(s) and vehicles. Maybe this wasn't clear in my first post? > All this data could be collected from a huge network of stationary > sensors like weather stations but that's not cost-effective. Your not wrong, there are several of my colleagues here, and elsewhere who continue to spend a great deal of time researching bringing the cost of implementing and deploying pervasive/ ubiquitous environmental sensing networks to reality and with a purpose. Your right, it isn't cheap, mostly down to the cost of power required to run the sensors, but modern discrete phenomona observing sensors that collect and transmit data about perhaps just one thing (often referred to as motes) are rapidly becoming viable technologies to the point where you could provide sufficiently dense coverage over a large area of the kind achieved today more effectively by terrestrial moving vehicles or expensive remote techniques (e.g. Aircraft and Satellite). Thanks. On Oct 10, 1:03 pm, William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TOU Section 1.4 Para 1 relates to restrictions of Google's licence > with data providers. The large paragraph on Map Information > inhttp://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.htmlstarts with reference to > Navteq and Tele Atlas, and ends with the conclusion - " you may not > use Google Maps with any products, systems, or applications installed > or otherwise connected to or in communication with vehicles, capable > of vehicle navigation, positioning, dispatch, real time route > guidance, fleet management or similar applications." > > The proposed application has nothing to do with the vehicle itself -- > it's all about the environment surrounding the vehicle -- therefore > the display of this real time environmental data is within the TOU. > All this data could be collected from a huge network of stationary > sensors like weather stations but that's not cost-effective. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
