[aprssig] Don't take things for granted !!

Gerhard f5vag.eu at gmail.com
Fri May 23 18:35:55 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Scott Miller <scott at opentrac.org> wrote:

> If anyone's that concerned about it, I'll be happy to take the lead on
> getting explicit approval from Google for APRS use of Google Maps. Based on
> my previous contacts with them, I can't imagine it being a big deal.  And I
> know for a fact there are APRS users within their ranks - I recognized the
> address of their main campus on a repaired OT1+ I sent out just a week or
> two ago.

Scott,

may be my original post was not clear enough. I'm sure that there is
no problem with APRS, but AIS is not APRS and it infringes Google's
T&C to show these things on their free API map.

That's the paragraph I had quoted in the original post. You can check
it in the T&C:
http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/help/terms_maps.html

--
73 de Gerhard, F5VAG / DL7MW
http://f5vag.eu, france.aprs2.net




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