Google is quite happy to allow users like myself to create third- party, own tile, versions of its product.
With historical mapping projects such as mine, I am forced (was forced) to use the Google tiles from mt.google.com. The historical mapping product I am creating is out of step with Google about every fourth tile in any direction as it was not created to scale, lat or long 100 years ago. I have to realign every time I have been doing this project for over a year and I have looked at every possible timesaving device. I have concluded that there is no other way. On May 25, 2:52 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 25, 1:23 pm, scotth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Before we see any further examples of "you shouldn't be doing that", > > there are plenty of reasons why some of us should. I am creating my > > own tiles - this method is the only way to line up my tiles with those > > of Google. > > Are you sure it's the only way? Mike has a custom map > herehttp://www.econym.org.uk/gmap/custommap.htmwhich doesn't do that; and > he references a utility from Tibor Katelbach which doesn't do that > either: everything is calculated. > > Anyway, the Terms of Service don't allow you to do it, so you > shouldn't be doing that. See paragraph 2(a) > athttp://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/help/terms_maps.html-- you're not > using the Product in the way in which Google intend it to be used. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
