Does anyone have a suggestion for a free or low cost geocoding service
that I can access from from a desktop app?
It has been brought to my attention that my very straightforward and
elegant coordinate lookup solution for a client violates Yahoo's terms
of service.
Yahoo states that you may not use their geocoding APIs for anything
other than placing dots on Yahoo maps! Also they prohibit the use of
their data from being stored.
Google says that you may not use theirs unless the application is
freely accessible to the public on the web and not on a private network.
Commercial services are expensive for the 20 or 30 lookups my
application will do a month for this client.
The free services prohibit "commercial" use, but I can't get a clear
idea of what "commercial" actually means in this context. Some of
these terms of service I've read (Eyes. Growing. Blurry.) prohibit so
much its a wonder anyone can actually use them productively.
Any wisdom from the my fellow FileMaker-ites?
Thanks!
j.
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Jonathan Fletcher
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