> The Google Map API provides a GDirections class which allows you to > calculate driving distances.
Ok nice, that works via Javascript and has a limit on daili queries, right? 15.000/day per IP (with 100+ ms). That would be more than enough for me, of course. > Is this a one time thing, or is the "specific destination" entered by > or dependent on the user? It's a one time thing, given that I have multiple "destinations" to evaluate. It's like I have 100 people subscriped to my website: everyone has it's name/age stored along with address. I want to evaluate the distance from user(s) address(es) to a given destination (example: National Park of Ashenvale). So I will be cycling 100 addresses on 1 destination (the National Park). My question is: if more people subscribe (say 200, 300, 1000, ... etc) and I add more points of interests (destinations), I will need to cycle more and more addresses. 200 people over 10 destinations will be 2000 queries, for example. Distances are saved on my database so it's a "one time" run. A new user who enters his address will be cycling 10 destinations only (if I have 10 destinations like the National Park). I was interested in understanding how much this model can be expanded: what if I get 50.000 subscribers and I offer 100 points of interest? That will be 50.000 x 100 = 5,000.000 distances to evaluate using google maps. > No. But you could write code to do that, if you are going to be > displaying the results on a Google Map API based map. Be sure to > review the Terms of Use to ensure your use is legal. If I use the GDirections class to evaluate distances from 1-100 addresses to National Park do I have to actually display a Map or can I give credits to Google for the tool? I'm asking that because I do not plan to use maps at all, I mostly need a numeric distance value more than a "visual" option (maps, bullets and so on). Something like "Your home dists 45 miles from National Park of Ashenvale". -- 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.
