I think it would be a really cool application, I just wonder about the
legality of it. Google licenses the map images from a provider (Navteq) so
there might be some problems with letting users store them on their
computer, as it would be easy to redistribute them.
Also, I think that in the Maps TOS they don't allow anyone to use Maps on
internal networks, which would seem to me to say that if they don't even
want it on private networks they probably wouldn't want it on millions of
private networks consisting of 1 computer ;)
But I'm still praying for it.
-Ben
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Rick Stirling <Stir...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
Gears and Maps would be utterly fantastic, a perfect team.
We are planning another long trip this year and have been building
custom maps with information from several review websites.
Basically, we know that it we go to location X, then we can eat good
food at A, B or C. In the New York part of our trip this'll be fine,
I'll just whip out my ipod touch, find a hotspot and look at the map.
However when we hit the wilds of Nevada, I'd be able to take out our
laptop and the offline portion of gears would still have entire custom
map there, hopefully searchable.
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