They are also charging for the product ($69 after 15 days free trail)
against the terms of the Google Maps API
http://www.xyzmap.com/

ESRI have a partnership with Microsoft to use Bing Maps [was Virtual
Earth]
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgisonline/bing_maps.html
only available with ArcGIS 9.3.1 or a patched version of 9.3 to access
(by licence control) the tiles

There is a potential for OpenStreetMap Vector Data to be used.
Is Free (if you have ArcGIS ArcInfo).
http://resources.esri.com/arcgisengine/dotnet/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&scriptID=16531
(better than the outdated tiles from Navteq and TeleAtlas)
and saves hours of digitising.

Mapperz
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/


On 5 Sep, 14:53, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Judging from their their lack of copyrights/logo, it looks to me to be
> a tile-scraper, and thus in violation of the terms. Thanks for
> bringing to our attention.
>
> - pamela
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Andrew
>
> Leach<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Sep 4, 10:18 am, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > It seems to be out of TOS. If not, ESRI would have done it in ArcGIS
>
> > I reckon so too. One for Pamela: she may be able to clarify something
> > about licensing andwww.xyzmap.com.
>
> > Andrew
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