Geocoding service without map

[Harutyun Terteryan]

Hi all, 

I see this sentence (Note: the Geocoding API may only be used in conjunction with a Google map; geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited. For complete details on allowed usage, consult the Maps API Terms of Service License Restrictions.)

 in http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/ ducument and get little-bit confused. I want to use this Geocoding service only for getting formated-addresses and show them on the screen, I have not functionality to show them on the map. Dose the sentence mentioned above mean that I can not use geocoding service without google map, and how they are combined together ?

And also I want to sign in for premier account for the geocoding service. How can I do this ?

Thanks in advance.

Harut.

[Chris Broadfoot]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Harutyun Terteryan <har...@gmail.com> wrote:

 Dose the sentence mentioned above mean that I can not use geocoding service without google map, and how they are combined together ?

Yes. You must display a Google map with the geocoding results.

 

And also I want to sign in for premier account for the geocoding service. How can I do this ?

Have a look here:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/premier/

Cheers

Chris

[Harutyun Terteryan]

But currently our application is using the previous version of the geocoding service without google map but it is deprecated now , 

so I need to migrate it to the new version and now I see that without google map it can't work !  :( 

Could you suggest some solution for my problematic situation please.

Kind regards,

Harut. 

[Harutyun Terteryan]

By saying our application I mean simple non commercial application for education reasons, was never hosted and run yet.

 It is only for education reasons. To get experience with google provided technologies.  

[Liang]

I have the same confusion here. Our company is using a three-party GEO provider to get Geo for addresses.  Our application use the GEO info to calculate the distances between two addresses.  We are not displaying any maps, it is just a backend program.

 

I am trying to persuade the manager to switch to Google map API. But from the notes in map API, it seems google map is not an option for us even we want to sign up with premier?  Thanks in advance for your reply. We need to make quick decision here because its approaching the date for extend our contract with current GEO provider.

[Thor Mitchell (Google Employee)]

Chris is correct. You can use the geocoder web service server side to
obtain addresses or coordinates, which can then optionally be cached
to aid performance, but when it comes time to show these addresses or
locations to a user, they must be shown on a map. Using the geocoder
in order to obtain addresses or coordinates in an application in such
a way that the user never sees a map of that data that credits Google
and it's data providers is not permitted.

Note that this is true regardless of whether you are using the
deprecated v2 geocoder, or the current v3 geocoder.

Many thanks,

Thor.

[Liang]

Thank you Thor,

It si now very clear to me. google map has to be displayed to the user
at any time.