[josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 28 January 2011 00:53, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> I understand that there will be a tiny fraction of users negatively affected
> by this,

Actually are there legitimate uses of Google tiles in JOSM that don't
violate the google maps TOS?  I wonder because for Yahoo!, it was only
possible to legitimately use their imagery in a program if it was
through the *web* api, and for Bing there are some very specific
conditions.

>From Google maps tos:

"you must not:
(a) access or use the Products or any Content through any technology
or means other than those provided in the Products, or through other
explicitly authorized means Google may designate (such as through the
Google Maps/Google Earth APIs);
...
(g) use the Service or Content with any products, systems, or
applications for or in connection with (i) real time navigation or
route guidance, including but not limited to turn-by-turn route
guidance that is synchronized to the position of a user's
sensor-enabled device;"

(there' a live routing plugin for JOSM iirc)

There are further such limits in the Google maps API TOS (separate
from maps TOS).

Cheers