Terms of Service for using the Network Location Provider Protocol

[Harry]

Hi,
Just wondering if using the location provider protocol detailed here:
http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/GeolocationAPI?redir=1 violates
the Terms of Service when used directly from a language of choice
(e.g. j2me) rather than the Gears framework?

Thanks,
Harry

[chentschel]

Hi!!.
Did you find response on this subject? . I couldn't find anything
about it.

I wonder if someone can use the location provider directly by posting
JSON data to www.google.com/loc/json ?

[Steve Block]

Hi,

Apologies for the long delay in replying.

> Just wondering if using the location provider protocol detailed here:http://code.google.com/p/gears/wiki/GeolocationAPI?redir=1violates

> the Terms of Service when used directly from a language of choice
> (e.g. j2me) rather than the Gears framework?

I'm afraid it does violate the Gears Terms of Service. Direct use of
the server using the JSON protocol is prohibited. See section 5.3 of
http://gears.google.com/tos.html.

You can only use the Google location server through the Gears
JavaScript Geolocation API. See http://code.google.com/apis/gears/api_geolocation.html.
We publish the JSON protocol to allow third parties to implement their
own server, which Gears can then be configured to use instead of the
default server provided by Google.

Steve