J2memap still got Google Map support!
MGMaps, another provider of free mobile mapping software has been forced to remove the GoogleMap support of his software.
Sad news. For j2memap, I’ve been trying to contact GoogleMap and the Microsft several times, to get an agreement with them to use more “legally” their map. Only Microsoft answered, but the offering was at that point (beginning of this year) not really mature. Google never answered despite several letter to different people….
Note that if you use the “proxy mode”, the Google statellite tiles might not appear because their proxy is blocking a single platform (mine) to do too many request per day (too many does not seems to be very big, something like 1000 requests)….
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August 3rd, 2007 at 9:45 am
Does that mean that Google Map support is expected to be removed as well on J2MEMap ? Are you guilty for not respecting terms of use of these services ?
I’m really interested by J2MEMap because it seems to be a pretty good solution at client side.
At first, I planned to register a service like ViaMichelin service, to have maps and some functionnalities likes a search form that retrieves GPS coordinates from an address the user enters. However, an access to such a service is not free.
How do you manage you retrieve GPS coords from a textual search ?
Thank you.
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:57 am
The problem with GoogleMap is about using their tiles, not existing function from their API (like Geocoding).
So for now I still keep GoogleMap support in the client, and hope to find a longer term agreement with them…
August 5th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Google Maps API is some javascript API available only for use in other web sites, so technically we’re breaking that license too. Fortunately, so far they have not complained about the search/directions/geocoding features, their main concern is their map tiles.
August 5th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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