I think you're probably right about that, Andrew. I think I'm going to leave it as is--I'd imagine Google won't mind too much about making a font size something less dumb than 12px. That's really hard to see on my 1920x1200 laptop display. I actually implemented the CSS to hide the link, uploaded it and looked at it, then thought--"wait a minute, that might not be kosher." So now it's commented out of my CSS.
Thanks, Brian On Apr 17, 4:32 am, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 10:09 pm, Brian P <[email protected]> wrote: > > > However, there is the option ({resultList: > > google.maps.LocalSearch.RESULT_LIST_SUPPRESS}) to suppress the results > > list, which obviously removes the links that appear in the results > > list. This seems like a designed feature that violates the TOS if read > > strictly. I guess maybe in this case Google itself is suppressing > > display of the result list so it's not a violation? But if someone > > used CSS to suppress display of something as described in the AJAX > > search documentation, that would seem to be a violation. > > I think the point is that if the documented API makes something > possible, then you're allowed to use it. Thus, if RESULT_LIST_SUPPRESS > is documented, you can use it. You can't do anything which isn't > documented if doing so would result in violating the TOS -- so as > altering the CSS isn't documented in maps.LocalSearch, you shouldn't > do it. It's OK to alter the CSS if you're using search.LocalSearch. > > Changing font size to match the rest of your site is moot: strictly > it's not OK, but Google may not mind too much provided you don't go > wild and make things too small to read. I don't believe that using CSS > to suppress the "More results" link is OK though. > > There is a similar situation with GDirections. The TOS say that any > data must be shown on a map, but it's possible to use the API to > retrieve routing data without showing the route on a map, or the > textual directions and copyright. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
