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

[bobashforth at comcast.net]

I've been lurking' since I found out about the OpenMoko effort/product, but this looks like a good time to chime in.

The GPS applications, especially in combination with phone functionality, seem like a great differentiator. Could end up redefining the answer to "What is a cell phone besides 'just' a cell phone?" The answers have so far mostly included (a) a PDA and (b) a music player... this would be a new entry in the race.

I'm at PayPal (one of the eBay properties, along with Skype), and have a good friend who is well-placed in the Google Earth division. (Note that Google Earth and Google Maps are quite different, BTW.) Said friend is on holiday at present, but I'll forward him this thread and relevant links, and we can see where that goes. (I also hope to join the development effort- VoIP and embedded experience from time at Avaya- but need to gauge my available time carefully before committing.)

More news if/when I have any...

Bob

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From: "Jeff Andros" <whitedrought at gmail.com> 
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:



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 :(

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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