The iPhone already has this data in the Apple Maps app (http:// www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/maps-compass.html) so it's just a question of them making the same data available to us via the MapKit framework. Although I agree there are no doubt commercial implications.
One thing I could do (assuming google allows it, and the whole point of this query was to find out what they allowed) is to put the map page, with directions, on my (non-commercial) web server (probably as a CGI script rather than static HTML). My web server has a google Maps API key, which up until now I have used in the "traditional" way that google intended the maps to be used on ordinary websites. Then I could embed that page in my iPhone app. This worked in the iPhone simulator and I don't see why it wouldn't work (from a technical point of view) on an actual iPhone. This is using v2 of the Google Maps API of course and although the implication is that the v2 API is not supposed to run great on iPhones, perhaps it is ok for just showing a map and one route and no extra annotations. (The map I have on the iPhone using the MapKit framework will have around 500 pin annotations.) Needless to say, relying on this web server is not ideal because it adds another possible point of failure to the app (so I bet my web server is less reliable than the google one, to start with). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
