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Had to make an account and comment - my friend went through this whole thing and the terms of service get pretty fuzzy pretty quickly. For his listings website
by mslider 13y ago
Had to make an account and comment - my friend went through this whole thing and the terms of service get pretty fuzzy pretty quickly.
For his listings website that charged business owners fees for "premium" listings, Google[0] considered the embedded Maps to be part of what he was selling. They argued that the service as a whole (incl. maps) was "the product".
We disagree, apparently, but our interpretation doesn't mean diddly squat until push comes to shove.
[0] Edit: by "Google", I mean whatever sales drone is trying to get you to pay. I assume their salespeople are on commission like any other company.
- barclay 13y ago> I assume their salespeople are on commission like any other company. With one important difference: they're the most arrogant, uninterested and rude sales people i've ever had to deal with. "Because, what are you going to do, use Bing?" C'mon OSM. Can't get rid of google fast enough.
- magicalist 13y agoHuh? This is definitely not true. As long as the map itself is not behind a paywall, you're fine, and charging for being listed in your system (not for visiting it) would pretty much easily pass the terms of service requirement listed above. Lots of people make money on sites with google maps embedded in them. The only thing you have to worry about is being more popular than 25k loads per day.
- mslider 13y agoDo you run their compliance team and call the shots on how that's interpreted? If so... would like to get in touch - maybe you can help my friend out by putting that sales drone in line.
- magicalist 13y agoNo, but I have made a site that's not too far away from that, and been around the Maps API forums enough to know that plenty of sites like that exist.