Relocate Google Logo in Mapview

Relocate Google logo in MapView

Google Maps SDK v2 for Android adds this functionality.

Use GoogleMap.setPadding() to add padding to the "active" area (including the Google logo and copyright notices) while still filling the full container.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android/map#map_padding

Google Maps SDK for iOS: Relocating the Google logo

In the terms of the Google Maps there are following sentences concerning the Google logo:

8.4 (b) Restrictions. In using Google Brand Features, you will not:

...

(iii) have the Google logo as the largest logo in your Maps API
Implementation or on your website (except as displayed in the map
image itself);

and furtherer more there also is the sentence

9.4 Attribution.

(a) Content provided to you through the Service may contain the trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain
names, and other distinctive brand features of Google, its partners,
or other third party rights holders of content indexed by Google. When
Google provides this attribution, you must display it as provided
through the Service or as described in the Maps APIs Documentation and
may not delete or in any manner alter these trade names, trademarks,
service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand
features.

So as I read this you are not allowed to modify the position or any attributes of the Google logo itself. But I didn't found any restriction which do not allow a layer or something above the Google logo.

But please note I am not a lawyer and in my purposes I don not see any reason why to modify the Google logo.

Best regards
Robert

Can I overlay Google Logo on map or move it to top right?

In my experience using Google maps there is nothing you can do to overlay the logo or the copyright string. And you shouldn't, it's there for a reason - you should give credit for the things you use that have been made by other people.

The only "solution" that I see is to place an overlay picture that is outside your map container and position it absolutely over the Google logo. But I hated this thought the instance it occured in my mind :)

I think you should change the design of your map overlays so that the logo will fit in.

Location of Google Logo on Map in iOS Application

You can't.. That violates a Google Maps term:

(f) delete, obscure, or in any manner alter any warning, notice
(including but not limited to any copyright or other proprietary
rights notice), or link that appears in the Products or the Content;

and the App Store Review Guidelines:

8.6 Google Maps and Google Earth images obtained via the Google Maps API can be used within an application if all brand features of the original content remain unaltered and fully visible. Apps that cover up or modify the Google logo or copyright holders identification will be rejected

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