On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Jerry Dunmire wrote:
Google is a problem because their usage policy does not allow caching. Several other standalone applications (viking comes to mind) have had to stop using Google maps for just that reason.
Depending on the exact restrictions, we could disallow Xastir's caching when using Google maps.
OSM is possible. While IANAL, the Creative Commons license OSM is using for the maps and map data appears to be compatible with xastir.
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I have been trying to use the StaticMap (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StaticMap) interface to OSM, with some success.
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If anyone is interested, I would be happy to share my patches.
Release them under GPL and I'd be happy to try to integrate them into CVS. Just send them in private e-mail with suitable licensing and credit sentences in the patch or in the e-mail text. -- Curt, WE7U. <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer> APRS: Where it's at! <http://www.xastir.org> Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
