10.12 of the Terms says: "you must not use geocodes obtained through the Service except in conjunction with a Google map". It does not say that you can only use it to plot a marker, and that means you're fine.
-- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Apr 11, 4:11 am, Eric Love <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Currently my webapp uses the geocoder on street addresses and stores > lat-lon-accu in a DB. When I load data from the DB, the lat-lon is > used to put markers on the map. I provide an option to show the > addresses which did not geocode correctly so the address may be > modified to something that does. > > There are other things I would do with the data but they're not > allowed. However there are a few things which would be very useful to > my app and seem to be on the fringe of what is allowed, so I'm asking > for clarification. > > Is it OK to use geocoding data to sort or filter records? For > example... > > - Select from DB all the sites which are in a particular state to > show on the map > - Select from DB all the sites whose lat-lon are in a particular > range, eg those that will appear on the map > - Sort sites in order of latitude so they can be listed next to the > map in north-south order, or in order of distance from some point. > - Use coordinates within the webapp in other mathematical operations, > eg determine if point is within some polygon. > > In all these cases, no geocoding data is taken out of the Maps > environment, but it has been used for more than just plotting a marker > on the map. > > Thanks > > http://home.exetel.com.au/eric5014/mappage/map.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
