On Jan 21, 5:17 pm, seamusmorton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi andrew, thanks for your reply. HTTP access to the driving
> directions is not available directly but when making the request from
> the API it sends back the direction string in the header and it can be
> extracted.
>
> I know it's not really meant to be used like that but that information
> is made available to me in the API

Hmm. I don't think it's been mooted to use the API to construct a URL
to create a static map. The feeling (as in that Issue) has been that
everything would be done server-side and a static map would be used
because the client couldn't run Javascript. If the client can run
Javascript, then use an ordinary dynamic map.

However: something like IE Mobile *can* run Javascript but can't cope
with the full Maps API, so this might be a compromise arrangement.

There is this in the Terms:

10. Except as explicitly permitted in Section 7, you must not (nor may
you permit anyone else to):
10.1 access or use the Service or any Content through any technology
or means other than those provided in the Service, or through other
explicitly authorized means Google may designate;

Parsing HTTP headers falls foul of that; but if you can use a
GDirections object and examine each GStep in that, it would be ok.

Andrew
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