How to export Google Maps search to Google Earth

[Alex Maslov]

Hi there!

A customer of mine needs a functionality to upload the results of
Google Maps search into Google Earth. Technically this thing is pretty
easy to do - just retrieve Google Maps search results in KML format,
merge them and launch Google Earth with the resulting file. However
Google starts blocking my application after several successful
attempts...

Am I doing something wrong? If so, is there any legal way to do
this?

Regards,
Alex

[Jeremy Geerdes]

Are you hacking the results directly from Google Maps, or are you
using the LocalSearch API? Google's TOS allow you to retrieve results
only from the LocalSearch API. Also, it sounds like you're using
automated queries to run the requests in rapid succession, which is
against the TOS of both services.

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