[Users] Printing GYM base layers

[Yves Moisan]

Le 2010-05-26 12:34, Christopher Schmidt a écrit :
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:05:58PM -0400, Yves Moisan wrote:
>    
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Searching around for the status of printing commercial base layers in
>> the ux print widget,  I came across this, which is the last I heard
>> about the issue : "printing proprietary base layers like Google or Bing
>> is going to be a pain"[1].  Is that still the case ?
>>
>> If a user pays Google or Yahoo or MS the amount of money they want to
>> use their data on their intranet, can their base layers be used in one
>> of the GeoExt printing modules e.g. for customer reports ?  Is it any
>> different for an OpenStreetMap base layer ?
>>      
> Google does not offer any ability to print maps (or re-use tiles),
> even if you pay them.
>
> Microsoft has in the past been more open to non-commercial re-use of their
> tiles, and may provide some access for things like printing without violating
> the Terms of Service.
>
> OpenStreetMap data is creative commons licensed, and there is no license-based
> reason why you can not print using OSM data so long as you are following
> that license. (This means that the end result -- the printout -- has to be
> treated as creative-commons licensed as well.)
>    
Thanx Chris.  I was more concerned about the possibility of printing 
altogether, although of course what is allowed to do with the data is 
paramount.  I guess since OSM tiles can be printed, there is no reason 
why tiles from another provider can't be printed by the 
GeoExt/OL/MapFish stack, except for the license.

Cheers,

Yves

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