Re: Fetch nearby place info from google maps

On Aug 25, 6:41 pm, Togi Pangihutan <togipangihu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a newbie on google maps and find this is an amazing tools to help
> me developing lbs app.
>
> Anyway I'm developing wap based lbs service, and for some reasons
> (saving international bandwidth, reducing time consumed for accessing
> google maps apis) we decided to store custom places info (local banks,
> hotels, restaurants) into Mysql database.
>
> I wonder is there any way to fetch those info from google maps
> database?

You mean scrape Google's data? That would be against the Terms of
Use.

> I tried to use recursive loop and fetch the data from google
> maps wap page. But after successfully fetch some data, google not
> allow the script to fetch the entire data by redirecting to captcha
> page.

That should be a good indication that you are not supposed to do that.

-- Larry

>
> Any comment and suggestion will be so much appreciated
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Togi
>
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>
> Best Regards,
>
> Togi Pangihutan
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