<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71944"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71947">OK - that explains things. I like it and use it just as is and appreciate your work to keep it up. I did not realize how much I took for granted until it suddenly disappeared.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71946"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71845" dir="ltr">Again, keep up the good work! Thanks!<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71516"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71517"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71518" class="signature">de Charlie, N5EXY, Grid EM10fl, <br>South Suburban Greater Hutto<br><br><br><em id="yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395279062014_123809"></em></div><br> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71524" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71523" style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71522" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71521" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_76584" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71526" size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Heikki Hannikainen <hessu@hes.iki.fi><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 4, 2015 4:19 AM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_72002"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_72001" style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] google maps back on aprs.fi<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428158521743_71525" class="y_msg_container"><br>On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, Charles Doughtie wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> YeahBut - - I'm confused. I thought the underlying reason for the <br clear="none">> interruption was street view tracking but that is still functional. ???? <br clear="none">> Glad to have it working again - hope the dispute has been resolved.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The reason was that Google Maps terms of service say Street View may not <br clear="none">be shown alongside a non-Google map (such as OpenStreetMaps).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As a temporary measure I disabled OSM support, since it was quickest and <br clear="none">easiest to do that, to get the service back up with a good certainty.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Because a lot of folks depend on OSM maps being more accurate in their <br clear="none">area, I'll get OSM back online one way or another. One idea is to simply <br clear="none">hide/disable the Street View features completely if you select OSM map <br clear="none">tiles. I'll check with Google if that's OK, since I'm now in contact with <br clear="none">them over email regarding this matter anyway. There might be additional <br clear="none">changes needed, such as using non-google geocoding (address search), and <br clear="none">reverse geocoding (showing address respective to a station's coordinates).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">One option is to have a non-Google variant of aprs.fi running alongside <br clear="none">it, as a backup. That'd be quite a lot of additional work for me to <br clear="none">maintain.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://developers.google.com/maps/terms" target="_blank">https://developers.google.com/maps/terms </a>10.1.1. h:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(h) No Use of Content without a Google Map. You must not use or display <br clear="none">the Content without a corresponding Google map, unless you are explicitly <br clear="none">permitted to do so in the Maps APIs Documentation. In any event, you must <br clear="none">not use or display the Content on or in conjunction with a non-Google map. <br clear="none">For example, you must not use geocodes obtained through the Service in <br clear="none">conjunction with a non-Google map. As another example, you must not <br clear="none">display Street View imagery alongside a non-Google map, but you may <br clear="none">display Street View imagery without a corresponding Google map because the <br clear="none">Maps APIs Documentation explicitly permits you to do so.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> - Hessu<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt0950742803" id="yqtfd45090"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">aprssig mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig" target="_blank">http://www.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></body></html>