Re: FN-FORUM: Ordnance Survey map data

date posted 16th May 2007 23:02

> I do a lot of Google Map Mash-ups and I gets asked the commercial
> no-commercial question all the time. If the site is commercial in any=
way
> then better to be safe than sorry, for non commercial, I agree why bot=
her
> worrying until there's a case law to go by.

Q: Is the Maps API available for commercial websites?
A: Yes, it is.

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=3D55141&topic=3D1094=
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From the example given you can see that charging to add points or other=
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data to the map is OK, e.g. for Estate Agents.

I also read this to mean that you can have a map in a protected part of =
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your site for the purpose of adding points, but that you must have a =

freely-accessible map on the same site. Some prefer to make it the same =
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map, with different functionality if you're logged in, but I think that =
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the two are effectively the same thing.

If your map is only available to paying visitors to your site, or is on =
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intranet and not the internet, you need to buy an Enterprise license =

(which also gives other benefits).

Anthony
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