On Mar 10, 4:39 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 10, 1:38 pm,MilanAndric<[email protected]> wrote: > > > One thing that bothers me about theGoogleAPIs is that the license > > says they are limited to non-commercial use. So if you want to add > > some features to your commercial application and take advantage of the > >GoogleMapsAPI (or geocoder for that matter) you can’t. At least not > > easily or affordably. Why? I’m sure this has been discussed elsewhere > > but I will ask again, feel free to ignore me. Why not make the service > > a commercially viable one? Have clear pricing points etc and have a > > free service along with a commercial one that allows people to buy a > > bundle of requests? Right now according to the license on the website > > it’s as ifGoogleonly wants to support non-commercial applications? > > Where do you think it says that? > > -- Larry >
Larry, under the license restrictions section? 10.4 http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html 10.4 charge users or any other third party any fee for the use of the Maps API Implementation, the Service, or the Content, unless you have entered into a separate written agreement with Google or obtained Google's written permission to do so (but if you are a consultant who creates or hosts Maps API Implementations for third party customers, you may charge such customers a fee for your consulting or hosting services); -- Milan -- 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.
