I am working on a front end to flightgear, which is an open source flight simulator.
My intent was to create a list of all airports that the user has installed, then pull satellite imagery from google maps to generate thumbnails showing the airports so the user can select. The frontend is going to be written using gtk+glade, so it's not a web browser app. Here's the rub: My plan was to have each user download the thumbnails in batch mode. On reading the TOS, it seems that this is not an allowed use; staticmap API can only be used from within a browser, and the maps must be dynamically downloaded and cannot be cached. Since the nubmer of installed aiports can number in the thousands, dynamically populating this list every time the user starts the app is impractical. I can break this down into smaller chunks - Country, State/Region, City - but the question then is the browser requirement. Is an app that dynamically pulls static maps considered appropriate use? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
