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#190
Originally Posted by Paikkatietoikkuna View Post
Great work, but sorry to say ...

Mapsi is working against the Terms of use for Paikkatietoikkuna.
It is not allowed that an application copies and stores map data out of the Paikkatietoikkuna.

Orava or who ever delivers the Mapsi application shall make an official agreement with National Land Survey in Finland (Maanmittauslaitos) about the usage of map API.

Terms of use for Paikkatietoikkuna says:
"Proprietary rights
All rights concerning spatial datasets and Products, including copyrights and other proprietary rights belong to the NLS and other Data providers. More information about the rights is available in the metadata of the spatial datasets that the Products are based on.

Copying and detaching products, in whole or in part, from the Map service and making the contents available to the public by distributing, publicly presenting or displaying them and storing or reproducing the contents, in whole or in part, is prohibited. To use the Map service for educational purposes funded by public means is allowed. The User may for his/her private use in accordance with the Finnish Copyright Act and for use in thesis print out single maps from the service. All other copying of maps is prohibited. "
http://www.paikkatietoikkuna.fi/web/...and-conditions

( Käyttöehdot suomeksi
http://www.paikkatietoikkuna.fi/web/fi/kayttoehdot )

National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) is very willing to support the development of new navigation and other applications. NLS was a sponsor in Apps4Finland competition 2011.
NLS has proposed that map data should be available free of charge by the 1.5.2012 - and hopefully Ministry of Finance in Finland will allow this happen.

Please, be innovative but follow the rules. Together we have to encourage our politician to create us better rules!
Mapsi is a WMS client application that doesn't use any particular WMS servers but user must define servers he wants to use in WMS settings file. I removed Paikkatietoikkuna's WMS servers from my example WMS settings files but I can not control if people want to share their own setting files (for example by posting those to this thread (and if someone does that please first remove all lines starting with "wmsCookieValue_")) that contains Paikkatietoikkuna's servers.

Last edited by orava; 2011-12-12 at 06:41.