Literally everything in the tweet is incorrect.<p>- The caching policy is defined per-API [0]. The generic TOS just says that the default state if the per-API TOS says nothing is "no caching". Most of them allow caching for 30 days.<p>- The "no derivative works" clause that the author thinks would be illegal explicitly says that it's forbidden to the extent that the law allows it to be forbidden, just like all TOS do. (It's also talking just about the source code, which I certainly wasn't expecting from the tweet.)<p>- The "don't use in a non-Google app" bit appears to be a complete fabrication. There is nothing like it in the TOS. The only thing even remotely close to it is that it's saying you must use the APIs, not scrape data from a Google app to use outside of the app.<p>- Benchmarking isn't forbbiden. What's forbidden is public disclosure of the benchmark results, unless there is enough information for somebody to replicate the tests.<p>[0] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-terms" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/maps-service-te...</a>