I guess should also post this here: http://www.edparsons.com/2008/11/who-reads-the-terms-of-service-anyway/
At least the thread title how has a clear cut answer: yes. Sure the data is still 'ours', but Google have a clearcut licence to do what they want with it. It's somewhat annalogous to Creative Commons licences - except its not clear if Google have to give attribution! Need to discuss this more with clients, but for the moment have been asked to disable some Maps :( On Nov 6, 11:24 am, ProbablyMike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 2, 7:54 pm, fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The OS definitely conside anydatathat is even checked against their > > maps is derived. The only totally clean way is to use GPSdatathat > > is not plotted on and potentially checked against OSdata. > > We've had this confirmed. > Even looking at an OSmapto find the location, and then clicking on a > separateGooglemapto get the coordinates is classed as deriveddata. > > This pretty much rules out usingGoogleMaps API to display almost anydatafor > anyone in the UK. > > We are going to have to pull all (bar one)ourGoogleMaps fromour > websites. > One ofourmaps is using pure GPSdataso that is okay. > > OS also say this also applies to Microsoft & YahooMapAPIs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
