[Geowanking] New Yahoo! Maps APIs

[Andrew Turner]

It doesn't appear that GoogleMaps has this restriction:
"In addition, the Service may not be used: (a) for or with real time
route guidance (including without limitation, turn-by-turn route
guidance and other routing that is enabled through the use of a
sensor), or (b) for, or in connection with, any systems or functions
for automatic or autonomous control of vehicle behavior."

This states that I can't use GoogleMaps to give directions on my own
app, or drive an autonomous vehicle. It doesn't restrict my ability to
upload "real-time data". Or am I missing another restriction?

As for the actual "Sensor" part of the restriction, does this also
prevent someone from just telling an application where they are and
displaying it? Yahoo! is only restricting *how* the information was
gathered. It doesn't seem possible that Yahoo! (or NavTeq) can really
restrict *how* the data was gathered, all they are seeing is lat/lon
requests. What happens if I used a sextant to get the real-time
position data?

Andy

On 11/3/05, Simon Willison <willison at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
> On 3 Nov 2005, at 12:21, Andrew Turner wrote:
>
> > This seems like some odd restrictions on the use of the Map API. I'm
> > not sure if their concern is personal safety (of the end-user), or
> > what. But I use Geocode API's in exactly this manner and find the
> > restriciton both weird and annoying. Also, since when is "real-time"
> > equivalent to "less than 6 hours"? Is this some thought that people
> > don't typically stay in 1 location more than 6 hours? Or is this whole
> > thing just to keep developers out of a space Yahoo! wants to
> > potentially enter?
>
> I don't know the reason myself, but the Google Maps API has the same
> restriction:
>
> http://www.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html (at the end of 1.4)
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