Yes, but I've received the following message from Google today. It mentions "mobile phone" and "people"..
3. Google Maps for Asset Tracking Asset tracking licensing is required when your mapping application is used for the location of a physical asset that is monitored by a sensor like a GPS or GPRS unit, mobile phone, geo positioning device etc. Asset tracking applications are defined as any service that monitors vehicles and any other assets, fixed or moving, including people. On 4월27일, 오후10시28분, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 April 2011 08:56, Seong Hwan Cho <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm developing an iPhone mobile application. In this application, > > Google Map is used to show current (or earlier) locations of friends. > > In 10.2 in Terms of Service, it mentions about business asset > > tracking. > > Does asset tracking include showing friends' locations?? > > People aren't assets. Their mobile phones (which is probably what you > will be tracking) are assets. You aren't creating an enterprise map, > so you can track assets, providing your map is public and everyone > knows where your friends' phones are. Tracking *people* probably falls > foul of Term 10.1.1(f)(i). > > > Most likely, the application will be free in the market(app store). > > > My questions is, > > Are we supposed to buy a license to use Google Map API? (MapKit in > > iPhone framework) > > or are we free to use Google Map API for no additional charge?? > > See 9.1.2(b). You can actually sell a mobile app via an app store and > still not need a Premier licence (my reading is that you can only sell > the app, and not charge anything else for access to the maps). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" 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.
