I watched the rules for using google maps api and it was written there that you cannot use the map to track vehicles in real time (as in yandex api). What are such restrictions connected with and what are the card alternatives?

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    Clarified the name of the question, check pliz - Kromster
  • @Kromster thanks - manGust
  • OpenStreetMap watched? - Ivan Pshenitsyn
  • @IvanPshenitsyn know about her, but did not find a guide on how to use it correctly. In general, it is strange that Google and Yandex prohibit tracking vehicles. - manGust
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    Because it is a commercial activity with which they want a pretty penny. - rjhdby

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Immediately make a reservation, everything further is my personal fantasies.

Look, a certain state service, say, an ambulance, will announce a tender for the development of an application for monitoring the location of its crews, which would send the nearest car to calls.

The tender will be won by the office of "Horns and Hooves", and this will not only benefit because it is of high quality and inexpensive, but for reasons completely understandable.

After that, the office gives an order for subcontracting for 10% of the tender amount. A subcontractor hires a student who, for $ 500, writes an application and uses the Yandex Maps API there.

Everyone lives happy and happy, while Yandex, for some reason, does not disable access to the API, or simply fails to update, for example.

Because of a failure in the application, confusion arises and Grandma Shoigu is sent an ambulance from the other end of Moscow, she arrives too late and the grandmother manages to glue the flippers.

Shoigu: Who is to blame?

MinZdrav Minister: Yandex - it all broke!

Yandex: But horseradish! We have the same Russian written in white that you can not use the service for tracking

UPD: If you are not cunning, then this functionality in 99.99% of cases is, in one form or another, a commercial activity. Hence, two fundamental points.

1) They need it, to deal with the flow of claims from Commerce?

2) Want to make money on our labor? Wellcome to the contractual department, where we will give you access to a special, reliable and SLA-covered product for denyuzhku.

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    Unfortunately a minus. Firstly, speculation, and secondly, One thing is to prohibit use, and the other is a disclaimer. In your case, a simple waiver would suffice. And then it would have been the problem of the State Service and the Horns and the Hoof, that they chose an irresponsible decision, and Yandex was still on horseback. - Kromster
  • The logic is clear. But then they could write that they were not responsible for using the API and there would be no problems. - manGust
  • Monetization is a separate issue, again regulated separately through bans on commercial use (full or partial) - Kromster
  • @manGust And they have it written at the end of the terms of use. But here again, a discount on human pofigizm. Monitoring transport is such a thing that, in the event of a failure, can lead to consequences ranging from heavy financial losses to casualties. In this case, it is better to be safe and, besides the “high voltage” sign, hang next to one “do not fit - kill” - rjhdby