I've asked my contacts at ESRI The Netherlands for a clarification and as long as tiles accessed through their API there is no issue.
See also the human-readable version of the ToS which ESRI created recently: http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisonline/e800_summary.pdf Best regards, Bart -- Bart van den Eijnden OSGIS - http://osgis.nl On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:45 AM, Stephen Mather wrote: > Hi, > This reminds me of the TOA issues associated with the ESRI FGDB API > with respect to single use licensing vs. server, ala Paul Ramsey's post a > while back. It seems like an opportunity to bring ESRI in on the > conversation and see what their intent is, and whether there's an opportunity > that they are missing with these restrictions (but best to be cautious in the > mean time). > > Best, > Steve > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Bryan McBride posted a bit on Twitter about this, but it seems that ESRI's > ToS [http://www.esri.com/legal/pdfs/e-800-termsofuse.pdf] does not allow > third-party clients to access the web services (however this seems to > differ among services since some are licensed CCA instead). > > Section 4, item f of the ToS reads: > > f. Provide others with access to Web Services through non-Esri software; > > So this probably means that we are validating their terms by some of our > examples, especially: > > http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.11/examples/arcgiscache_ags.html > > which uses: > > http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f2498e3d0ff642bfb4b155828351ef0e > > However this example does not work at the moment. But we might need to > take some action in this regard. > > Best regards, > Bart > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-users >
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