On Sep 14, 2:45 pm, Naveen <[email protected]> wrote:
> The requirement is that, PDF files which has the map image embedded to
> it will be created dynamically in the server-side.

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http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html
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Maps APIs Documentation, you must not (nor may you permit anyone else
to):

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browser;

  -- Larry

> Once after this,
> the operations guys will print these PDF's and mail them to the
> respective users. So on an average 5000 PDF's will be generated on a
> day.
>
> The windows service I have will generate the Google Static Maps URL
> string
>
> ex:http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=39.7003190685975,-10...label:S|39.7003190685975,-104.929733276367&markers=color:blue|label:1|39.71­9748,-104.986259&markers=color:blue|label:2|39.7003190685975,-104.986259&se­nsor=false
>
> and this URL is bound to an Image control of an RDLC file which is
> used to generate the PDF. Hence during PDF generation, a request is
> made to the Google server to get the map image response. I tested this
> and its working fine.
>
> My only concern now is about the usage limit (which is 1000 request
> per day). This boils down to - only 1000 PDF's can be generated per
> day :-(. So is it possible to increase this usage limit? or do I need
> to take a different approach to get this static image output?
>
> Regards,
> Naveen
>
> On Sep 14, 12:20 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > My windows service application that runs in the server-side as a
> > > background task needs to generate around 5000 different map images per
> > > day using this Google static maps API.
>
> > I don't think it can be generating images.  Do you mean that it
> > generates URL strings to be passed to end users browsers, or that it
> > fetches the images from Google?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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