Using Google Maps

[Camden Daily]

When that one guy did the craigslist housing google maps overlay
(http://paulrademacher.com/housing/), the Google blog gave him some
high praises.  I haven't seen any efforts at shutting down his project
even though he's pulling their map data.

As with all such licenses and terms, I think it's basically there in
case people start to abuse the service.  Might be worth shooting an
email to Google to inquire.

-Camden

On 5/5/05, Jeff Portwine <jdport at veritime.com> wrote:
>  
> When I tried it,  I got 
> Error: Permission denied  (line 14, Char 2)  if I used IE6, 
> and if I used Firefox I got:   
> Error: uncaught exception: A script from "http://..." was denied
> UniversalBrowserRead privileges. 
>   
> Tried looking at the code, but my javascript skills need some work :) 
>   
> Also, how legal is using a script like this?   I'm especially interested in
> doing something like this for geocoding, but in their terms and services it
> says (among other things): 
>   
> No Automated Querying 
> 
> You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without
> express permission in advance from Google. Note that "sending automated
> queries" includes, among other things: 
>  
> using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how a website
> or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries; 
> "meta-searching" Google; and 
> performing "offline" searches on Google. 
> Now, I know this isn't doing anything with webpage ranks, meta-searching,
> etc.. but it is still an automated query.    Was just curious if there were
> any legal implications to doing this kind of thing?. 
>   
> Thanks! 
>   
> -Jeff
>  
>   
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Andy Canfield 
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:09 PM 
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Using Google Maps 
> 
> To all,
>     I have created an example of how to use Google Maps in your own web
> pages for routing, geocoding, directions etc. I have a sample web page and
> all the code is within that page. I'm sure once folks see what I'm doing
> they will be able to add it to their own Mapserver pages fairly easily. I am
> going to try and add the page to this e-mail as a .zip file. If my gmail
> strips it out please feel free to e-mail me and I will send you a copy of
> the zip file from another account. The source will show you how to feed an
> address to Google Maps and get back the Lat, Lon of that address. It will
> also show how to feed Google Maps a from and to route request and get back
> the directions and the polyline coordinates of the route. The source code is
> intended as example only and I leave it up to you to how you want to add
> that data to your Mapserver implementations. Google Maps does have
> restrictions to using their API so you must abide by them if you decide to
> implement this example. If there are any errors in the source please let me
> know so I can fix them. So far I have only tested this with Mozilla and IE6.
> Thank you,
> Andy 
> 
>