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

slubman slubman.dndd at laposte.net
Mon Nov 27 16:56:32 CET 2006


Le Lundi 27 Novembre 2006 16:20, Alessandro Iurlano a écrit :
> 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
>
> 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 :(
>
By calling the browser installed on the phone with the good coordinates, I 
think we respect the Google Map API's terms.

> 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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