There is a part in the API which could be interesting to Drew: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Advertising and a sample: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/adsmanager-adunit.html In fact you need to read the terms, know the API documentation and use your imagination. Why not use the search API together with Google Maps? For images you can get raw results like in the API playground: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#raw_search
Regards On Mar 31, 10:22 am, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 31, 2:14 am, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You seem to be planning something akin to a design-a-handbill > > service ; perhaps it'd be worth looking at how regular handbill > > printers/promoters get map extracts licenced. > > The Terms allow printing of up to 5000 copies of a map image. So one > way to comply with the Terms would be to use the API to construct the > maps your users want, and produce a web page for them which they can > print. Don't create derivative images: do *everything* as an online > service. Provided that your service complies with the Terms, there's > nothing you can do about your users breaking them by printing more > than 5000 copies or producing a PDF. > > The chargeability model for such a service would still be an issue > though. You might be able to create all the separate elements of your > handbill for free, including the maps, but only get to the layout page > -- which after all is the meat of the application and likely to take > most of your programming time and database space -- for a fee. That > way, access to the "map implementation" is free and you are charging > for the service of laying out all those separate elements. -- 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.
