Feature request : Creation date (timestamp)

[Stéphane Moser]

I've searched in the API a way to know the creation date of the map we want to download. I found nothing about it. Here is the reason:
- If we create some websites with maps, for example an company addresses book. For each company inside the address book, we want to download the show the map of where is the company. However, we don't want to surcharge/overwhelm Google with requests to download maps, we want to store the current version of the map for offline use, or for not having to constantly download the maps.

Is there a way to have 2 methods :
1) Have a way to request the timestamp of the current map of a position.

2) When getting infos of a map, having the timestamp of it as well inside the object returned.

This way we can limit the download requests to Google, and only download the new map when the timestamp changes.

[Rossko]

> we want to store
> the current version of the map for offline use, or for not having to
> constantly download the maps.

That's against the terms of use.

The map services are designed to be used by many thousands of peopole
worldwide simultaneously.