I just had to try my own suggestion, and it seems to work OK. It is only slightly marginal regarding the terms, but I think that as long as you're using the information to display a map, you're OK.
Step by step: 1. Start with the lat/lonthat the image has, for example: 50.078911, 14.441319 which is in the middle of a park. 2. Get directions from that lat/lon to "somewhere" 3. Read the lat/lon of the first step of the GDirections result: 50.07852, 14.4412 (Slightly different from the original because that's the nearest road) 4. Reverse geocode that lat/lon, and you get: "Polská 10-24, 120 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic" Now you have some useful text to build a URL. -- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Sep 17, 6:19 pm, Jeffrey Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 17, 6:13 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But beware the terms of whichever geocoding service you might use ... > > Google's geocoder for instance, is for providing data for use on > > Google's maps (reasonably). Using the service to identify photos with > > convenient labels sounds to be outside of those terms? > > we are using google maps in a lot of ways for all of these images - > they are used on our own world map, in georss, on google earth, etc. > So maybe i'm not getting exactly what you mean. > > > > > I think your 'friendly' idea might only be friendly for the speakers > > of one language, isn't this a world deal? > > I'm talking about a URL, not a title (which can exist in many > languages, and ours do). a URL can be something that makes sense when > you read it, or something that doesn't make sense. I am trying to > create URLs that make some sense, rather than URLs that don't give any > evidence of what the page is about. For speakers of any language. > Whatever the address is, it might be easy or less easy for a speaker > of a certain language to guess what the page is about. Certainly, URLs > are less interesting for chinese people, but that's nothing I can > really do anything about ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
