Le 2010-05-26 12:34, Christopher Schmidt a écrit : > 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.) > Thanx Chris. I was more concerned about the possibility of printing altogether, although of course what is allowed to do with the data is paramount. I guess since OSM tiles can be printed, there is no reason why tiles from another provider can't be printed by the GeoExt/OL/MapFish stack, except for the license.
Cheers, Yves > Best Regards, > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
