RAP: Route Access Partnership

What is the RAP: Route Access Partnership

You want to provide the best cycling or hiking routes to your customer via your own GPS device, free of charge? Keep on reading about the

Route Access Partnership! RouteYou has a massive amount of top-quality recreational routes and POIs.  

The Route Access Partnership or RAP allows the users of your GPS device to make free use of the routes on RouteYou. RouteYou provides the technical backend to make this all possible.

To be able to do so, your user will need just a free account on RouteYou and create or mark routes on RouteYou she/he would like to use as their favorites.

What's the benefit

The benefit for your platform is the following: 

1. Your customers have access to a great set of routes for FREE
2. Your customers can use your device with a lot of RouteYou-functionality such as our advanced RoutePlanner and the other great features on RouteYou for FREE.
3. We make a clear link in our help and our platform (you referred to it already) to link to your device (so that's a promotion to a lot of users per year), so our users might become your users 

For RouteYou, the benefits are: 

1. Our users get very easy access to your device and as such great extra functionality to do something with their routes or the routes they like
2. Your users get informed about RouteYou and they might become users of our platform too

Conditions to make free use of RAP

Your GPS-platform /device can provide the routes of RouteYou free of charge under the following conditions

1. You clearly indicate to your users (in your selection/search of routes) that the user can select the routes of RouteYou
   1. You mention the name RouteYou + our URL www.routeyou.com
   2. You show the logo of RouteYou in a clearly visible size (you can find the logo's of RouteYou here)
2. If the routes are mixed with other routes, the routes of RouteYou clearly indicate that they are provided via RouteYou, and you clearly mention the author and name of the route.
3. You can not sell or charge an extra cost for supplying the content of RouteYou to your users. It can't be part of a Premium service but should be part of your standard supply of content.
4. You do not redistribute the routes to other providers.
5. For performance issues, you can store the data on your servers.
   1. If routes are stored on your servers, you regularly check (min. once per month) the availability of the route and the characteristics.
   2. If routes of related info such as pictures are removed from RouteYou, you also remove them from your supply within an limited time period (max. 1 month) 
6. The end user (this is the customer who has a GPS device) who also has an account on RouteYou, can access the following routes and related info:
   1. his/her routes he/she created on the RouteYou platform
   2. public routes he/she marked as favorite on RouteYou
   3. public routes linked to groups he/she is a member of or owns on RouteYou
   4. public routes linked to a user/author on RouteYou he/she follows (if that will be made available by RouteYou in the future)
7. The customer will clearly state on the device the collaboration with RouteYou as a source of these routes (logo & website www.routeyou.com)
8. The customer will clearly mention the author of the routes as mentioned and provided by RouteYou
9. The customer will clearly inform their end users how to access the routes on the RouteYou platform, how to create an account on RouteYou, and how to make use of the RouteYou platform.
10. Under no conditions can the customer or the end user claim ownership of these routes and other related info such as, but not limited to, POIs or pictures.
11. The customer will take the necessary actions to limit the access of the data on the servers of RouteYou based on the following described Fair Use Policy:
    1. Maximum 1000 web service calls per hour
    2. Maximum 10 000 web service calls per day
    3. Maximum 100 000 web service calls per month
    4. Maximum 1 000 000 web service calls per year
12. If the above Fair Use Policy is violated, the customer will be informed by RouteYou to take necessary actions to stay within the agreed limits. If no actions are taken and/or the Fair Use Policy is repeatedly violated, RouteYou will block the access
13. Under no conditions can the customer or the end user claim damage compensations related to quality issues linked to the content of RouteYou. The customer will also inform their end users about this aspect and will inform them to take the necessary safety measures using the routes and the content of the RouteYou platform.
14. If copyright related issues or ownership related issues about routes and/or linked info (such as, but not limited to POIs or texts, or pictures) is addressed to the customer, the customer will take immediate action to remove the content from their devices and/or linked platforms.
15. The customer will take reasonable actions to update and/or remove the info on their platforms and on the device of the end user when connected, on a regular basis (max every 3 months).
16. The customer will also mention the collaboration with RouteYou in their communication.
17. The customer cannot claim any damage compensations related to the failure of services of RouteYou such as, but not limited to, failure of servers, no access to parts of the provided data.
18. The customer can temporarily store routes for performance reasons, but is not allowed to store or keep the routes on their platforms for any other reason than individual use of the end user.
19. The customer or RouteYou can always decide to stop this collaboration/agreement without any claim of damage compensation from the other party.
20. RAP refers to the digital distribution of the content and does not cover analog distribution of the content such as paper, books, folders....

RouteYou has a quality control system to define the quality of the routes. Nevertheless, users can also make and provide low quality routes. As such, the individual user is responsible when executing the routes

• not to violate any legal limitations
• take the necessary safety measures executing the routes

How can you access the routes on RouteYou and provide them on your device

We recommend to use OAUTH 2.0. Read more about it here.

 

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