On 8/16/13 8:53 AM, "Doug McCune" <d...@dougmccune.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone found a point of contact at Google regarding the Maps API and >> Flash? > > >I don't want to be a debbie downer, but Google is historically horrible >when it comes to things like this, and there has been a huge volume of >annoyed messages posted to their google groups board about the flash API >deprecation over the last few years, none of which made any difference. I >wouldn't spend any energy trying to get Google to do anything regarding >their Flash API. They're not going to open source it, they're not going to >support it, there are existing obvious bugs that they aren't going to fix >[1]. OK, thanks for the info. > >I'll also point out, Google really doesn't want you using their API in >anything but a free publicly accessible HTML app that uses their JS >library. If you're doing anything else (commercial use, behind a paid >login, loading their tiles in another map component, etc) you are almost >certainly breaking their terms of use. Google's business is selling ads >(sometimes on maps). I saw that in the T&Cs. Seems like you can pay to use via some Enterprise deal, no? So given this info, I guess the better route is to turn FlexJS into something then see if Google would find it interesting to make a parallel version or not. Hopefully some other map vendors will. -Alex
