On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:05:58PM -0400, Yves Moisan wrote: > Hi All, > > Searching around for the status of printing commercial base layers in > the ux print widget, I came across this, which is the last I heard > about the issue : "printing proprietary base layers like Google or Bing > is going to be a pain"[1]. Is that still the case ? > > If a user pays Google or Yahoo or MS the amount of money they want to > use their data on their intranet, can their base layers be used in one > of the GeoExt printing modules e.g. for customer reports ? Is it any > different for an OpenStreetMap base layer ?
Google does not offer any ability to print maps (or re-use tiles), even if you pay them. Microsoft has in the past been more open to non-commercial re-use of their tiles, and may provide some access for things like printing without violating the Terms of Service. OpenStreetMap data is creative commons licensed, and there is no license-based reason why you can not print using OSM data so long as you are following that license. (This means that the end result -- the printout -- has to be treated as creative-commons licensed as well.) Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
