+slycrel Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 I am the author of Geopher Lite on the iPhone. I've been very careful to adhere to the terms of use of geocaching.com. I have seen other software for the iphone that allows a user to upload a pocket query or GPX/LOC files to a website and then have these programs re-serve that data to an end user. Do the terms of use of geocaching.com actually allow this? Have I missed a loophole somewhere? I'd love to be able to do this for my users, but my impression was that this was a bad thing and forbidden by the terms of use. Any clarification here would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment
+ArcherDragoon Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 I am the author of Geopher Lite on the iPhone. I've been very careful to adhere to the terms of use of geocaching.com. I have seen other software for the iphone that allows a user to upload a pocket query or GPX/LOC files to a website and then have these programs re-serve that data to an end user. Do the terms of use of geocaching.com actually allow this? Have I missed a loophole somewhere? I'd love to be able to do this for my users, but my impression was that this was a bad thing and forbidden by the terms of use. Any clarification here would be greatly appreciated. There is a good possibility you are going to get alot of varied answers here...your best bet is to send an email off to contact@geocaching.com and get it cleared up with those in charge... Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Seem pretty obvious to me. If you want to upload it to your own site, strictly for your own use, that's allowed. Uploading it to someone else's site... not so much. Licensee shall not sell, rent, lease, sublicense, lend, assign, time-share, or transfer, in whole or in part, or provide access to the Data, Related Materials, any updates, or Licensee's rights under this Agreement to any third party whatsoever. Link to comment
+Corey Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 That's a good question, what about sites like iGeocacher? Maybe that's okay because the user who uploads their pocket query will be the only one with access to their data? Link to comment
+slycrel Posted August 19, 2008 Author Share Posted August 19, 2008 Seem pretty obvious to me. If you want to upload it to your own site, strictly for your own use, that's allowed. Uploading it to someone else's site... not so much. Licensee shall not sell, rent, lease, sublicense, lend, assign, time-share, or transfer, in whole or in part, or provide access to the Data, Related Materials, any updates, or Licensee's rights under this Agreement to any third party whatsoever. This is what I have understood as well. However, there seem to be a few people doing this and no apparent repercussions, so I was just curious. I don't want to go about this the wrong way. More discussion would be helpful here, I'll let you all know what I find out as well. Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Sometimes Groundspeak grants permission to do what you're describing. GPX Spinner had permission to do it, before I changed the architecture so uploading wasn't needed any more. Itsnotaboutthenumbers.com has permission to allow uploading GPX files. Email Groundspeak and ask. Link to comment
+slycrel Posted August 20, 2008 Author Share Posted August 20, 2008 (edited) Thanks for that, I appreciate hearing from someone who has gotten permission above and beyond the current terms of use. =) Edited August 20, 2008 by slycrel Link to comment
+KoosKoos Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 That's a good question, what about sites like iGeocacher? Maybe that's okay because the user who uploads their pocket query will be the only one with access to their data? It's probably a violation of the terms as you're transferring your GPX file to another service. The host still has access to all of the data, not just the uploading user. Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 That's a good question, what about sites like iGeocacher? Maybe that's okay because the user who uploads their pocket query will be the only one with access to their data? iGeocacher seems to also be using Groundspeak's icons. I wonder if permission for that was also asked for and given. I kinda doubt it. Groundspeak has an artist under contract who creates those images. They're not Public Domain. Link to comment
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