Today, Quy Tonthat, the maintainer of Viking, announced that he dropped the support for Google Mas from Viking “due to requests from Google”. Frankly, it was less surprising that Google excludes other applications from using their photo material, as they did with Gaia back in 2006. Noone should complain. Google brought us cool stuff with its maps and Google Earth Software for free. It’s up to Google to decide how their data must be used.
That being said, I’ll keep a copy of revision 824 on my hard drive :) .