Google dont really communicate on matters like this, and most employees are not lawyers so cant give an offical answer. (and have to be very careful that there answer can't be intepreted as an 'offical' answer)
At the end of the day tho *you* have to be satified you can or can not abide by the terms, if in doubt consult your own lawyer. but this group can offer you its opinion with impunity:) That clause says you can store geocodes, but "you may store limited amounts of Content ... if you do so temporarily, securely, and in a manner that does not permit use of the Content outside of the Service" ... so you have be be very careful in both how you store it and how long you store it. But if you dont actully store positions from the geocoder - rather just center the map based on geocoder, and then let the user actully place the pin then you should be ok. (and probably more accurate in the process) The basic reason for this clause, given a significant number of geocodes stored you could being to reverse engineer the original mapping data - effectivly giving a method to 'launder' the map data and extract it for free. ... but you say "my site does not store any address." so maybe you would be ok. Because its just a point (a simple fact) - and can not really be used to reconstruct any data. 2008/12/20 isol <[email protected]>: > > Thanks Barry, > > It must be my English. From that sentence I would have never extracted > that conclusion. > Do you know if there is a way to comunicate with Google to clarify the > terms?. > > Or from your point of view, do you think that with that sentence there > is no doubt that I cannot store lat/lon? > > Thanks. > Isaac > > http://www.locamio.com > **************************** > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
