That's perfect! Thanks Marcelo! Jeffrey
On Sep 17, 6:57 pm, Marcelo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
