If this does take off, it might actually turn out to be extremely dangerous. Lets say you buy into all the marketing nonsense about how it can value add to you

If this does take off, it might actually turn out to be extremely dangerous. Lets say you buy into all the marketing nonsense about how it can value add to your business and maybe even someone decides to create something genuinely useful for people with crippling alergies, maybe different routes, or some kind of alert system. Then Google in their usual way shuts down the api service with no recourse or alternative. Now you've left people who were using it, maybe heavily during certain seasons etc, stranded. I agree with the other posts, this smells of a "POC" that was pushed forward to demonstrate work done. Will be interesting to see how good the data is, but moreso how long the service will last.