Thread: [Viking-devel] All google maps will be removed from viking.

Hi all,

Google has now requested us to remove _all_ other types
of google maps from viking.

Again, we will just have to comply.

I plan to remove support for all types of google maps
from viking by the end of the year.

Now, we have more reasons to give OSM a hand.

Quy

On a personal level, this is quite good news for me - I was thinking of
doing some GIS stuff using the GoogleEarth/Maps API and now I really
know it would have been a complete idiocy.

Yes, OSM is the way to go!

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 01:21 +1100, Quy Tonthat wrote:

> Google has now requested us to remove _all_ other types
> of google maps from viking.
> 
> Again, we will just have to comply.
> 
> I plan to remove support for all types of google maps
> from viking by the end of the year.
> 
> Now, we have more reasons to give OSM a hand.

klaus e. werner wrote:
> On a personal level, this is quite good news for me - I was thinking of
> doing some GIS stuff using the GoogleEarth/Maps API and now I really
> know it would have been a complete idiocy.
>

Count me as the second complete idiot.

Quy

Does this mean "Magic scissors" and "Go to" are also dead?

Mahtieu

2008/11/28 Quy Tonthat <qto...@gm...>:
> klaus e. werner wrote:
>> On a personal level, this is quite good news for me - I was thinking of
>> doing some GIS stuff using the GoogleEarth/Maps API and now I really
>> know it would have been a complete idiocy.
>>
>
> Count me as the second complete idiot.
>
> Quy
>
>
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Mathieu Albinet wrote:
> Does this mean "Magic scissors" and "Go to" are also dead?
>
>   
The request from google representative is "to delete support
for the other Google tilesets as well".

I won't remove "Magic scissors" and "Go to" myself.
They have nothing to do with "Google tilesets".

But let's keep low profile on this. Guys from google
are more concerned about their jobs (just like all of us)
than anything else. If we don't do any harm to their
jobs, why should they care (unless they are idiots).

Quy

klaus e. werner wrote:
>
> Yes, OSM is the way to go!

Yes, it is.
Viking vector map for OSM is now at the second top of my TODO.
(I just have to finish up the scanned map right now, when I
have time).

"Yes, OSM is the way to go!"

Quy

2008/11/28 Mathieu Albinet <mat...@gm...>:
> Does this mean "Magic scissors" and "Go to" are also dead?

I'm not familiar with licensing issues.

Technically, Google is not the only provider of such data in the
electronic world.
For the "Go to", Geonames.org offers alternative.
For the "Magic scissors", OpenRouteService.org offers routinng
alternative based on OpenStreetMap data.

Any volunters to work on adding these sources to Viking?

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Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:

 > Technically, Google is not the only provider of such data in the
 > electronic world.
 > For the "Go to", Geonames.org offers alternative.
[...]
 > Any volunters to work on adding these sources to Viking?

  I was bored tonight, so I hacked together a patch to use GeoNames.org 
instead of Google for the 'Go to'-functionality. Attached the patch and 
two files that need to go into the src directory. You'd have to run 
configure again, because the Makefile in the src-directory needs to be 
recreated.
  Please use with caution. I verified that 'london, uk' and 'nijmegen, 
netherlands' work, but that's about the extent of my testing. But it 
seems so much more is possible with GeoNames than we do now -- perhaps 
when I get bored another evening I will expand the interface to do more 
things.

Greetings,
  Hein