I've asked the Ordnance Survey whether they now approve of the newly updated Terms, but I'm not holding my breath for a quick response. I would guess, for the same reasons Andrew gives above, that they will still be unhappy with them.
Since it appears that the whole issue of OS-derived data is going to have a shake-up next March, I'm not currently worrying too much. If the OS tell me to remove UK cycle routes from the CTC's web site I can do so, but I'm not going to unless asked. Another potential problem is that the official "opt-out" for situations where "you are unable or unwilling to provide such a license to Your Content" only covers removing such data from Google's search indexes. This would not seem to cover the situation where Google might "reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute Your Content through the Service" for their own promotional purposes. Certainly we cannot, currently, give Google a licence to do this with data derived from Ordnance Survey maps (which might include Google's own TeleAtlas maps...). But, to be honest, the whole thing is still horrible legal-speak that really doesn't make sense to me: how would Google "publicly perform" one of my maps? Are they planning a map-to-music algorithm? :) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
