Hi, I know I am too vague ... mainly because I cannot imagine real use of your map :)
Here is one another advice which I realized this morning: = If you want to make "secret" map, the best approach is to create on page nobody knows and nothing links to it. It means: 1) Create free webhosting with odd name (eg. www.asjhuuyxyy.com) 2) On that domain create a map with your data also with odd name (e.g. www.asjhuuyxyy.com/ooozzzhhlll.htm) 3) DON'T link to that page 4) Tell your group to keep silent about that page. 5) Set-up your page that Google search bot will not index that page (see Google webmaster tools at http://www.google.com/webmasters/ ) Results: - You have map which is freely accessible to anybody happy enough to guess your odd name - There is really small probability that someone outside your group will find that map - You did not break any rules Example: I have created a map for my community, it is indexed and freely accessible. But I bet, that you will not find it unless I tell you keywords or link to that map And again: What I have said are only MY OPINIONS, I can be wrong and your decission should not be made upon my guessing On Oct 12, 7:52 pm, Jasper <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks or your answers. > > Pavel, you say: > > > 2) MY OPINION: Anybody must be able to see AT LEAST SOME data on your > > map (e.g.: "Caches we found week ago") > > While it makes sense, it's way too vague - much vaguer than a ToS can > allow. > Also, your suggestion of "caches found a week ago" is no possible and > I would not know an equivalent. The game runs intensively for 30 hours > (~hourly hints, constantly moving targets) and finding a target does > not take it away - it only means you can't find it again for an hour; > other teams can still find that target. > > Andrew you said: > > > Actually 10.4 of the Terms seems quite explicit > > First off, 10.4 is not relevant to this situation. I am not taking any > fees from anyone: I am just giving out account to my team and not to > others. > The rule that is relevant is 9.1. > So basically what you say is that the crux is the code that uses the > API - if that is the same for every user, you can change pther factors > for a select group of users. Is this a correct rewording of what you > said? > > Jasper > > On 12 okt, 12:07, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Oct 12, 8:56 am, Pavel Janíček <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > your assumption seems correct to me, but also leads to conclusion i > > > think that they are against ToS > > > > I will try to rephrase what i THINK "freely accessible" means to me > > > Actually 10.4 of the Terms seems quite explicit: > > > You must not... > > 10.4 charge users or any other third party any fee for the use of the > > Maps API Implementation, the Service, or the Content... > > > Note: there must be no charge for the **use** of the Maps API > > implementation. So it's not acceptable for anyone to have to pay a fee > > to get a login to use the map. > > > However, the terms do not say that access to *your* data needs to be > > free (your data is not "Content", that's Google's map tiles and search > > result data); nor that access to facilities like being able to save > > data needs to be free. That's access to your services, not Google's, > > and it costs you money to maintain a database. Consequently a "Save > > this place" option in an infoWindow might return a 403 Forbidden error > > to the client if an authentication cookie wasn't present in the > > request. If that authentication was successful, the response could be > > 200 OK because the data has been saved. The client code needs to > > handle what is returned from the server, and the same client code > > needs to be available to everyone. > > > This post represents my opinion and nothing here should be construed > > as definitive legal advice. > > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
