Kumar, Regardless of how we consider Google, they don't make the law, they make terms of service for their systems. Breaking the law is a lot different than breaking a TOS. Police won't show up on your door, a lawyer might though.
By using the coordinates obtained through Google's geocoder in your radius search, which is a non-map application, I believe you are going against the terms. What you could do instead is when the person registers their account, use their postal code to center the map and ask the person registering to physically move a marker (dragable marker) to their location. That way you're using the geocoder to move the map, and aren't using for anything else. When the person registering drops the marker on their location, you then have an independently created coordinate that has no terms associated with it and are free to use that as you see fit. Does this make sense? Here's an example of such usage: http://maps.huge.info/pinpointaddress.htm (dragable marker) -John Coryat http://maps.huge.info http://www.usnaviguide.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
