Terms of Service

Once your organization has entered into our content license agreement, the Terms of Service will cover all future uploads including more data of the same type and data of other types. Participation in the Google Transit Partner Program is based on a similar content license agreement.

Your organization must own its content or have rights to license it. If you contract a service provider to collect or produce your content, you should make sure you secure the rights to make this content available to a third party. If you have questions about whether your organization holds the rights to license your content, talk with your organization's legal officer.

No, partnering with Google and entering into our content license agreement does not entail an exclusive relationship.

No. You’re not required, but we encourage and welcome updates to keep the map up to date

No. Google has the right to keep the content up. Read our Terms of Service within the Maps Content Partners Tool.  If you have sent in the data erroneously, please send an update for a review to modify.  If your map information is found to be illegal, we’ll remove it.

No. We don’t charge you to index or use your content.

No. We generally won’t pay for the content you provide. We use your maps content at no charge.

We are currently not able to review the terms of all data sets in the public domain. To expedite the processing of this data, it is best for it to be uploaded through Maps Content Partners Tool.