> Some news on this topic? No, there isn't, and may never be any. It's all a matter of scale and difficult to define in legal terms. Caching a small amount of data is probably OK, storing a series of separate routes is possibly OK, storing all roads in part of the road network is not OK.
Looking at it another way, if your storing of data is likely to impact on the business of Google or their data suppliers, then you're probably in breach of the terms. > What we can do with Google Maps Free API? Option A: store the driving directions (as we do) and be prepared to take action if Google ever complain. Option B: request driving directions all the time from Google servers, slowing everyone down. Option C: (for UK users) stop using Google Maps API altogether as Ordnance Survey think the whole thing's illegal* :( [* well, the latest information communicated to me today from their licensing people is that (a) data taken from TeleAtlas _might_ be considered derived from OS data, and (b) displaying any data derived from OS data (which _might_ include everything in the UK from Google) on a Google Map breaks OS Crown Copyright.] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
