Thanks for the reply. > The immediate problem is that you may only dsplay a Static Map in a > browserhttp://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html > 10.8
That's a good point. I actually found a link to contact Google where you can ask for approval...or at least explain the situation and see if they think you would be OK. I think I am OK on the printing to PDF because I'm not mass producing these thing. Each sold PDF would only be sold to one person....not on Amazon or anything like that. > The next problem is that no-one can see the map without paying for it > Terms 10.4 Sorry, I didn't clarify this point. The map would be free to the user and public. The payment is taking all of these free items (more than just maps), assembling them to a PDF and providing it to them. There is nothing stopping the user from taking the FREE content and assembling their own PDF. Saving the $1 or $4 or whatever. My hopes is that the user will realize that paying me <$5 for something that could take them 30 minutes to 2 hours would be worth it. The map portion of my PDF is probably 2-3 pages of a 10 - 100 sheet PDF. The way I see it is this. Say Steven King printed out 100 autographed photos of him and gave them away at a public library for free. Let's say Bill Clinton did the same thing. And so on until you have 10-20 famous autographed pictures. My service would be taking those 20 photos, gluing them to a poster board and charging you $4 to do it. I didn't sell you the photos. Just the service of doing something you could have easily done yourself. Thanks again. -- 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.
