On 7 April 2014 14:53, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> I agree that it would be a great thing to have the OpenLayers plugin >> (or at least a similalar functionality) available by default in core > > It seems that we all agree on this could you write the list, so we'll ask > Pirmin? > All the best. >
I'm not 100% sure on this, but isn't the OpenLayers plugin a bit legally murky? I'm pretty sure that it's either violating the Google maps terms of service or if not, it's cutting it pretty close. I know the Viking GPS program ran into issues back in 2008 with their in-built support for google maps layers [1][2] and were forced to remove this support. Having OpenLayers as a non-official plugin gives us some distance from issues like this - if we make this a core feature then we are effectively endorsing this functionality and may be opening ourselves to potential legal issues. Nyall [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/viking/mailman/viking-devel/thread/[email protected]/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/p/viking/mailman/message/20797817/ _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
