For testing and development purposes, you're allowed to keep the application locked away. However, you then lose out on the ability for us to help you with problems like this, because (obviously) we can't see it. :)
-G On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:10 PM, GAPI Beginner wrote: > > Thank you all for your response and patience. Please excuse my > ignorance since I am pretty new at this. I thought we could use to > test out the application on our localhost first because I got it from > this URL here > > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#keysystem > > > Gregory Short wrote: >> See 9.1 of the TOS: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html and >> inparticular 9.1(b). While I doubt* google minds if you're developing >> some little app for your own personal use (i.e. YOU alone will use >> it, >> and it's reasonably small-scale), in this case you're likely running >> afoul of the TOS. >> >> *IANAL, of course. Do not take this as legal advice. >> >> -G >> >> On Jul 23, 2009, at 3:01 PM, GAPI Beginner wrote: >> >>> >>> If I intend to use this one on my LAN only, how does this work? >>> Because I tried to connect to the application from another machine >>> on >>> LAN using the IP address of the host server, it always pop up an >>> error >>> message saying that the API Key is incorrect (The application was >>> deploy with a default API Key, so I need to replace this one). >>> Thank >>> you >>> >>> Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) wrote: >>>> You don't need a key for localhost. Any key will work. What's the >>>> usual method is to obtain a key for your intended final domain and >>>> use >>>> that when developing on localhost. Once you're ready to deploy, the >>>> correct key will already be in place and that will be one detail >>>> you >>>> won't have to deal with later. >>>> >>>> The key itself doesn't seem to be stored or even used anywhere, >>>> except >>>> to validate it (a routine in the API itself) when the API is >>>> called. >>>> In version 3, the key system is eliminated. >>>> >>>> -John Coryat >>>> >>>> http://maps.huge.info >>>> >>>> http://www.usnaviguide.com >>>> >>>> http://www.zipmap.net >>>> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
