On Feb 28, 3:30 am, wadori <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you so much for your assistance. > > I had looked over the terms of service before, but quickly, and did > not realize that it was required that I display a Google map. > (Generally the terms read with phases such as I "may display....". I > didn't realize that it was REQUIRED to display one. The terms are a > bit hard to digest.)
Actually 10.12 seems quite clear: "You may not use or display the Content without a corresponding Google map" > I was not planning on displaying a map, but as I > think about it, it would be good to display a map after a person > enters his/her address so that they can then confirm that the location > is correct on the map. Do you know if that would satisfy Google's > terms? (Once again, it is a bit difficult to understand the terms.) That's ok. You can even do something like http://maps.huge.info/pinpointaddress.htm > I may use straight-line distances or driving distances. However, once > I have the latitude/longitude coordinates from geocoding, I can > calculate the straight-line distance myself (and have already written > a program to do that). The reason for using Google maps would be to > get the driving distance (what I would prefer). However, I need to do > it from my program, not client-side. It's only available client-side. See issue 235 and add your star to request a server-side implementation. http://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/list However, even with a server-side implementation you would need to display the results. > I also could not display a map > of the results. If you use GDirections, you need either to display the route on a map or to display the listing panel. > This is a dating service, and it would violate > people's privacy to show a direct route right to a person's house > every time a match is made! I could possibly redisplay a map of the > user's own address, but there would be no purpose in that. Thank you > for the list of other geocoding services. Do you know if there are > other services that would provide driving distances server-side? (Or > if there is any other way Google can do it?) At least one of the resources listed at Rossko's link mentions "driving directions". -- 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.
