On Jun 16, 12:42 pm, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > What you *can* and what you *may* do are too different things. > > Check the OpenSpace terms, you only may use the postcode to center a > OpenSpace map - nothing else.
Which is all that I actually use it for. > You can as you note get it from the LocalSearch API, but note that 1) > Google have said this is short lived and will disappear (esp if people > abuse it) and 2) check the terms of the said API, can see nowhere > where it allows you to use it as Geocoder. > > http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html But equally: 1) It doesn't say that you can't. 2) It doesn't define what is meant by geo-coding I can understand that if one were to systematically lookup all the UK codes and publish a geo-coding file that qave all their lat/lngs, or some such, that woiuld most probably be considered a breach, but to look up a small subset of them and use them to manipulate a Google map - to centre it, or, as here, work out a distance, I would hope and expect that would be considered fair 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
