google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRS idea]

[Jeff Andros]

the Google maps website does list a linux version, but it lists a pentium
class processor as a system requirement, I wonder if we could get google to
do a custom compile onto our hardware, seems like their style

--Jeff

On 11/27/06, Alessandro Iurlano <alessandro.iurlano at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/27/06, David Ormsbee <ormsbee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We can still have an application that simply reads GPS data from the
> > phone and hits the Google Maps website with it, right?  The site
> > accepts long/lat. coordinates, and even has a satellite view mode
> > (though the quality isn't as high as in Google Earth).
> >
> > Dave
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>
> Unfortunately it seems we cannot.
> Google maps API's terms of service allow you to use it in a website and
> not in a
> standalone non-Web application (FAQ clearly says that)
> And Google Earth requires the client to be installed on the machine that
> you use.
> So both ways are not valid :(
>
> The only doable thing I can think now is a client to compile information
> for the openstreetsmap project :(
> This license is against all the applications that I wanted to implement
>
> Bye and thanks,
> Alessandro
>
>
> On 11/27/06, Marcus Bauer <marcus.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:44 +0100, Alessandro Iurlano wrote:
> > >
> > > > I know that google provides API for the search engine. Are there
> > APIs
> > > > for google earth maps too?
> > >
> > > Slashdot ran yesterday a story about this:
> > >
> > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/25/225256
> > > http://gaia.serezhkin.com/
> > >
> > > Basically the same goes for map data. You may have a look into
> > > openstreetmap.org .
> > >
> > > You may ask Sean about availability of maps for the Neo1973 (a quick
> > > search in the ML-archives gives no hits).
> > >
> > > Hope that helps.
> > >
> > > Marcus
> > >
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