[Vtigercrm-developers] GeoTools/Google Map Licensing

[Oscar Medina]

Hi Alan,

Any further news on this, I think my friend is ready to pull the trigger on that customization we had discussed a while ago.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com>
>Sent: Nov 26, 2013 11:17 AM
>To: vtigercrm-developers at lists.vtigercrm.com
>Subject: [Vtigercrm-developers] GeoTools/Google Map Licensing
>
>Hi All,
>
>I raised a question with Google recently after reading their updated 
>Terms & Conditions for the Google Maps API [1].
>
>It seems like there has been a change recently whereby to use the free 
>API the implementation of Google Maps must essentially have 2 core 
>attributes:
>
>1. Free to use
>2. Be publicly accessible
>
>This means that, from our discussions so far with Google, that if you 
>want to use GeoTools inside your business (i.e. not on the public 
>internet) then you will need a Google Maps for Enterprise license - 
>which is not cheap!
>
>We've not quite finished our discussions with them but I thought I 
>should say something...
>
>[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/licensing
>
>So my immediate take on this, is we should probably consider migrating 
>the tool to OSM sooner rather than later...
>
>Cheers
>
>Al
>
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