[Marble-devel] Opencaching plugin

[Anders Lund]

Hello Torsten,

Tirsdag den 6. november 2012 13:10:11 skrev du:
> Hi Anders,
> 
> Thanks a lot for updating the code for the plugin. It would  be nice if the
> patches would get into master.

I can clean up my patch (remove some of the unnessecary lines I disabled) and 
push to master, if desirable.
 
> BUT

[...]

> opencaching.com is not related to the Marble plugin.  It's a rather smallish
> project headed by Garmin.
> 
> The Marble plugin implements the API from the loose national not-.com
> OpenCaching node network:
> 
> http://www.opencaching.de (and .se, .cz, .it, .no, .nl, .pl, .uk, .us)
> 
> And even those websites don't seem in full agreement:

That is what I found out... And the plugin does not seem to work with the 
swedish site (I just did a very short test).

I'll read through the links below...

> If you look at their terms of use they differ a bit from country to country
> (which is even more curious, since the data seems to end up in the same data
> set).
> 
> See e.g.
> 
> http://www.opencaching.de/articles.php?page=impressum#tos
> 
> http://www.opencaching.org.uk/articles.php?page=T_O_S
> 
> http://opencaching.wikispaces.com/Anv%C3%A4ndarvillkor
> 
> So this is a bit of a huge mess :-(
> 
> Back when I talked to the OpenCaching guys I was in contact with Oliver
> Dietz. The problem here is how we deal with the different aspects of
> licensing.
> 
> - The API we currently use to access the OpenCaching.xx database is an
> inofficial API that has IIRC non-free terms of use.
> 
> - The data itself seems to be of varying licenses. We need to check how we
> deal with this inside Marble.
> 
> Recently a new API was introduced by the polish team:
> 
> http://forum.geocaching-network.com/index.php?topic=1993
> 
> This one distinguishes between
> 
>     OpenCaching.PL Data License, and
>     OKAPI Terms of Use (see below)
> 
> So even if the OKAPI Terms of Use are considered ok then still one of the
> problems is that the Data License differs from country to country. And
> someone would need to implement the OKAPI on our side.

If the network will agree on an API, I think I can do the work, but it seems 
silly if it won't work in all sites. It would be smart if there would be a 
central place to get the data, rather than using different servers depending 
on location!

> BR,
> 
> Torsten

Anders