I just want to make it clear, there wont be any registration at all. Users and password will be given at our office. There is also no service fee for this. And competitors wont be able to login unless they have a username and password which they can only get from us. And yes, we can show our stores location to consumers but we cannot show our competitors location. We use our stores and competitor stores for analyzing where to put up additional stores, trade zones, generators, etc.
Can all this fall under administrator function? except that the public use of the map is a store locator for our store? I can also add a registration, it will give me more information about the users and a possible market for ads. Regards, Myke On Jun 22, 7:09 pm, Marcelo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 22, 12:17 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm one of the "letter of the ToS" people, and I reckon it's fine. > > Marcelo and I have long disagreed on this! > > > The FAQ has this: "If the purpose of the password protected map is to > > enhance the publicly available map, then your site is likely within > > the Terms of Service." And the purpose of your password is to enhance > > the publicly available > > map.http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_password > > Andrew, > > You almost convinced me to change sides with your quote. :-) > > ... but the complete sentence from your quote is: > "If consumers can easily sign up for a password without charge or if > the purpose of the password protected map is to enhance the publicly > available map (i.e. administration)" > > ... and the way I read that is "either free accounts for everyone, or > password protection for administration purposes only". The OP is > asking about passwords for paying users. > So, I'll stay with the "spirit" for now. ;-) > > -- > Marcelo -http://maps.forum.nu > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
