Hi again,

to take up a topic that was touched on at Wikimania and now discussed on labs-l: Is it allowed to migrate tools that use Google Maps?

tl;dr: Hard to tell right now. Please provide examples! Ask about your tools, give details!

Here is why:

Marc-Andre Pelletier and Luis Villa explained the following: The tool would have to respect both the Labs Terms of Use and the Google Maps Terms of Use. This can mean users have to read and acknowledge a disclaimer before a tool can point to Google Maps.
Without concrete examples this is hard to analyse. How exactly would this be used? If you want your tool to be looked at as an example please come to labs-l and present it.

Kolossos also strongly recommended to look at open source tools like OpenLayers or Leaflet as alternatives to Google Maps. Most things can be solved with open stuff nowadays.

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