On Jul 31, 7:12 am, mike <[email protected]> wrote: > We display google maps on a large number of websites with about 15 > million individual map pages. > > We have been using an address-to-geo database from the 2000 census to > generate geocodes, which has about 80% coverage. We hard code the geo > coordinates to mysql databases. For the remaining listings we use a > zipcode-to-geocode database. These are very inaccurate. The > resulting map pointers show the center of the zipcode area, not the > individual address. > > We would like to grab the geocodes from google for these missing > entries. Is there a way to do this without violating terms of > service? They will ultimately be used strictly to display google > maps. >
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding and in particular: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding_Direct Not sure if it will give you all your missing locations or not. If these points will be displayed on a Google Map you should be within the terms of use, but be sure to verify that for yourself (IANAL). -- Larry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
