On Sep 10, 11:28 am, boomerbubba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, for my purposes, I did not access the http interface via a > script or webcrawler, etc. (And John Coryat's comments above > mentioned no such thing, either. He said more generally and flatly > that such http acces is "not allowed" and there is no http interface > to get such directions.) > > To clarify, unlike the original poster, who does seem to be working on > an automated process to glean data for a database, I am submitting the > URL in an interactive test. I either paste the URL into my browser's > address bar, or click on a link I have created. (I also omit the > output=kml qualifer from the URL, because I just want to render the > map and directions in Google Maps.) > > See my own simple example here: > > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from:+30.374239,-97.633008+to:+30.38004... > > John seems to believe that just submitting such http requests will get > someone's IP banned from Google Maps, and I am questioning that. > > Perhaps this is undocumented functionality. (I didn't even know > about the to: and from: syntax until I read this original post > above.) But I see nothing that makes it illegal per se.
I don't think there is any problem with your example (throwing a request to google maps). Perhaps you shouldn't hijack threads... > > On Sep 10, 12:54 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > On Sep 10, 10:48 am, boomerbubba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I have looked > > at the Terms and Conditions of Google Maps and can find > > > nothing that seems to prohibits this usage. > > > Did you read this section?http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS > > 5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the > > Services > > by any means other than through the interface that is provided by > > Google, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a > > separate agreement with Google. You specifically agree not to access > > (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated > > means > > (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you > > comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present > > on > > the Services. > > > > As for feasibility, I > > > have tried it interactively in a URL querying directions for 3 > > > sequential locations, and it seems to work fine. Perhaps there is a > > > limit somewhere in the number of locations or the total length of the > > > URL string. > > > > I have made an inquiry about this in the Google Maps Help Group, where > > > this topic properly belongs since it is not API-related. But I just > > > want to post this for the record here because of the comments above. > > > > On Sep 9, 5:30 pm, "Barry Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Please see the API documentation, if you do intend to stick within the > > > > API:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Driving_... > > > > See alsohttp://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html > > > > > As for quering Google Maps directly, please see their own > > > > ToUhttp://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/help/terms_local.html > > > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Zhitao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > I am trying to build an application on Java that needs to keep records > > > > > of a list of address and distance between each pair. I would like to > > > > > know if I can query Google Map and get distance for each route in the > > > > > direction from kml in a single http request. > > > > > > For example: > > > > >http://maps.google.com/maps?q=from:+lga+to:+jfk+to:+isp&output=kml > > > > > > The output kml has only information of the first part (lga to jfk), > > > > > but no information of second part. > > > > > > I wonder if I can get all information in kml in one query. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > -- > > > > Barry > > > > > -www.nearby.org.uk-www.geograph.org.uk--Hidequotedtext - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
