Hello warden and pamela, thank you for your answers!
Sadly for me (and us at eStranky) the "manual signup of users" (every user goes away from his website and generates own key) is quite non- user friendly. Our big promise is that our system is really easy to understand so we have users from 4 age to 90 age. We will try to find some solution. Is there some direct way to contact someone from Google with "official" question or I need to use just this forum?:) Ludek On 23 Pro 2008, 11:43, "pamela (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ludivitto - > > FYI - That form can only be used from a page hosted on google.com, so even > if it was within the Terms to host it yourself, it's not technically > feasible. > As for a Czech translation of that page, we don't have immediate plans for > doing one. You could suggest to your users that they run it through Google > translate before agreeing, or put a brief description of it on your site. > > - pamela > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:47 PM, warden [Andrew Leach - Maps API Guru] < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 9:04 am, Ludivitto <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there an API or URL with text (xml or other) solution, where we can > > > through parameters receive API keys for domains of our users? > > > > If there is not an API for generating keys, then is it possible to use > > > the form on the following page: > >http://code.google.com/intl/cs/apis/maps/signup.html > > > so that our > > > system could automatically generate the API key. Is there a limit to > > > the number of API keys that can be generated on this URL within a > > > given time period? > > > The Terms don't allow any other method of getting a key other than > > using the website form. > > > Terms, 5.2: "You may only obtain and use a key in accordance with > > these Terms and the Maps APIs Documentation." which links to... > > Documentation: "To use the API, you need to first sign up for an API > > key." which links to... > >http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html > > > Google may be happy for you to provide a Czech translation of that > > page which they could add to the list in the top-right. That's > > probably something Pamela could comment on. It's *technically* > > possible to spoof the form complete with account cookies and parse the > > response to generate keys, but that would be frowned on, I think. [In > > the old TOS, it was explicitly forbidden] > > > Another consideration is that a key is linked to a Google account. If > > you got a key for your users, it would be linked to your Google > > account. Say one of your users did something Google took a dislike to > > and they decided to disable the account that map was operating under? > > It would take down every map on your domains. It really is better to > > get your users to sign up for a Google account and a key. > > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
