From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chad Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Google modules integration Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:03:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <878w3a1x9s.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <1284140876.2505.23.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284141853 18747 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2010 18:04:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:04:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Julien Danjou , Emacs development discussions , carsten.dominik@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, dave@lab6.com To: Thomas Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 20:04:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou7xK-0007M9-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:04:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou7xJ-00024P-Rf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:04:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60107 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ou7xD-00022u-4i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:04:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou7xA-000352-Ox for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu ([18.9.25.13]:59862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou7xA-00034x-NT; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:04:00 -0400 X-AuditID: 1209190d-b7b38ae000006976-86-4c8a73219bb6 Original-Received: from mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.43]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-2.mit.edu (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with SMTP id 23.CC.26998.1237A8C4; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:04:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id o8AI3xIh004390; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:03:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.1.194] (c-71-231-113-235.hsd1.wa.comcast.net [71.231.113.235]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id o8AI3sIe008607 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:03:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1284140876.2505.23.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAhX1iRYV9ZhU X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129924 Archived-At: On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Thomas Lord wrote: > About whether or not Google maps is "SaaS" or simply a "service", > you wrote: Without digging too deeply into the definitions, I will add that it is possible (and relatively common) for unaffiliated third parties to use both the software and the database of Google Maps. Some examples that I have used myself in the past: http://housingmaps.com/ http://mapwow.com/ One uses the map+api to add real estate data to existing Google Maps, the other uses custom (game-specific) maps in the Google Maps API. Hope that helps (rather than muddles), *Chad