Hi, On 01/28/11 09:57, Matthias Meißer wrote:
But as said by others this is just wrong. Yes we add a new barrier but we all know that they could be bypassed by anyone with low skills.
I beg to differ. This is exactly the point of this barrier - you should not be able to use Google if you have "low skills". You should need to employ a certain amount of tweaking to use Google - so that you cannot reasonably claim "what? Google isn't allowed? I didn't know...".
This was the case before we had the templated TMS layers; it was always possible to use Google but you had to run your own Google-to-WMS adapter (googlewms.jar) or employ other tricks. And that was ok for me; by going that extra mile the user basically proved that he really wanted to do that even though we don't offer it directly.
But the introduction of templated TMS layers has greatly *lowered* that barrier. All I have done is raise the barrier back to where it was.
For me the question is, if there is a special reason for your suggestion? Were so much Googled OSM data found in the past weeks? As said, to me the problem seems to decrease cause of Bing Maps.
Then how do you explain what Richard wrote, that within weeks of Potlatch 2 being released - which shows Bing images by default - people were happily using it to trace from Google, and bragging about it?
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