[Geowanking] New Yahoo! Maps APIs

[Simon Willison]

On 3 Nov 2005, at 12:21, Andrew Turner wrote:

> This seems like some odd restrictions on the use of the Map API. I'm
> not sure if their concern is personal safety (of the end-user), or
> what. But I use Geocode API's in exactly this manner and find the
> restriciton both weird and annoying. Also, since when is "real-time"
> equivalent to "less than 6 hours"? Is this some thought that people
> don't typically stay in 1 location more than 6 hours? Or is this whole
> thing just to keep developers out of a space Yahoo! wants to
> potentially enter?

I don't know the reason myself, but the Google Maps API has the same  
restriction:

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html (at the end of 1.4)