[Kde-imaging] [Bug 206133] support for Open Street Map

[Torsten Rahn]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206133


Torsten Rahn <rahn at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Torsten Rahn <rahn kde org>  2009-11-26 22:06:48 ---
We don't officially offer ready-made Google Maps support.
The reason is that we looked into the Terms of Use for Google Maps as well as
the Google Maps API and figured that usage of the Google Maps API inside Marble
would be legally problematic. The same is true for several other mapping
applications as well (that's why high-profile applications like e.g. Viking and
NASA WorldWind don't support Google Maps APIs either). Several Free Software
projects have received "warning" letters from Google in the past (like Gaia and
Viking) and I'm not keen on receiving something like this for Marble.   

Additionally there is the problem that Google's Terms of Use have been subject
to frequent changes in the past which we consider problematic, too.
Also we don't feel keen on supporting non-free maps (as in Free Software).

However technically there's no problem with Marble having support for Google
Maps: It works already.
Actually with trunk it's just a matter of changing the Url of an XML file using
a text editor.

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