Google maps support

KK3 years ago

Hi,
When i look at the application i can see lot of open source maps listed such as open street map, open navi etc. My question is whether Google Maps are supported ? Sorry if it is a bad question, but i assume that Google maps also is open source?

Anton Tananaev3 years ago

Google Maps are very far from open source. It's not open source. It's not free. And it has very restrictive licensing.

It is possible to use Google Maps with Traccar:

https://www.traccar.org/map-layers/

... but be warned that you have to have a permission from Google to use tile server directly.

KK3 years ago

Thanks a lot Anton for the clarification.

Token3 years ago

@Anton Tananaev:
Sry for my questions, but I am absolute Traccar newbie.
I have successfully installed Traccar Server 4.14 on a RaspberryPi, and can also see my iPhone as a Traccar client. So far everything is good.

But now I want to integrate the Google Maps, and fail mentally on the procedure.
How do I insert where the Google link, so that I have besides OSM also the maps from Google.
(Yes, I have read your license hint!).

The Bing Maps are unfortunately also not displayed - here the background remains only white!

Maybe @BerndFfm can also help in German?

Thanks in advance!

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Token

Token3 years ago

@Anton and @Bernd:
Ignore my Questions ... I have found a solution for this problem!
Bing Maps req. a Dev-Api-Key from MS ... and Google-Link is a Server-Setting!

Best Regards
Token