Mobile Apps Affected by Possible Google Maps Access Fee Starting in 2012?

A lot of mobile apps depend on Google Maps for displaying maps with all kinds of different information. The screenshot here, for example, is WeatherBug for Android’s weather map. For the most part, most of these commercial and non-commercial uses of Google Maps by third parties fell under Google’s free Terms of Service policy. The BBC News reports that some of Google will introduce a fee, under certain conditions, for using Google Maps starting January 1, 2012.