You are accessing the tiles directly, so you are not even using the API. Does your application display all the logos and copyright strings as implemented by the API? Will it automatically include new branding as Google deems appriate to implement in the future? If the answer is no then you are not using the API.
Hence the ToS of the API is not applicable. I guess the closest is http://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html On 11/03/2009, Nanda <bavigadd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Marcelo, I dont understand the violation here. I had gone thru the > TOC (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_nonweb) and it says > that the Maps API can be used on Desktop applications. All I need to > do is once the application is completely ready, I would have to give a > Page to download it. I have this website in a Unix server and can > provide that anytime after the application is ready. Did you mean > about any other TOC? > > > > On Mar 12, 9:40 am, marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > On Mar 11, 11:14 pm, Nanda <bavigadd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Can we still use the Google Maps API > > > in this scenario? > > > > No. what you describe is in complete violation of the ToS. > > If you read it, I think that's pretty clear. > > > > -- > > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > > -- > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Maps-API@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
