In order to tile a "snapshot" you would have to at some point load images from their server, regardless of if you're using any api or not they will know where their images are being loaded from. If there images are being loaded from a source that is also not registering any kind of API, they will know the images are being loaded illegally. It is a form of tile harvesting.
I would just like to point out, that adobe has completely dropped support for flash the web flash player for mobile devices; this ultimately means very quickly flash won't even be supported on android devices on the web. Adobe is developing tools to allow for translation to HTML5, who knows how that would affect potential future apis. Unless you have a really good reason for doing it, such as an existing application, you should aim for doing all future -web- mapping applications in Javascript. Now you could take the risk that Adobe's future tools will have a robust translation capability from AS 3.0 to JS (I am hoping for this significantly), but this is a massive risk that you will be taking. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API For Flash" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-api-for-flash/-/mewV4N2_JmAJ. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-api-for-flash@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-api-for-flash+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api-for-flash?hl=en.