[josm-dev] Tasks for all of you

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Stephan wrote:

> Dirk Stöcker wrote:
>> http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/1906
>> WMS-Plugin: Implement caching
>
> Is this in compliance with yahoos usage license?
> There had been a discussion recently, I think the conclusion was that
> saving the yahoo-tiles on disk might violate the rules.
>
> http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/maps/mapsapi/mapsapi-2141.html
> (viii) store or allow end users to store map imagery, map data or
> geocoded location information from the Yahoo! Maps APIs for any future use;
>
>
> As a browser also saves tiles to a cache (firefox does), I would
> interpret that caching does not allow an end user to save the data.
>
> But it might be wise to clarify this issue first before implementing too
> much.

We can disable that for Yahoo when needed, but all the WMS layers also 
benefit from caching.

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