Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : N/A URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/import_photos Screenshots of what you are seeing (instructions for taking a screenshot on com…

I think that’s a misunderstanding of caching. Caching would be to find remembered Lat/Lon from specific text. Once you have both for the observation you are no longer referencing one from the other and both are independent fields now.

They do seem pretty strict that you’re not supposed to keep pretty much anything you get (not just cache): 3.2.3(a) : No Scraping. Customer will not export, extract, or otherwise scrape Google Maps Content for use outside the Services. For example, Customer will not: (i) pre-fetch, index, store, re…

I don’t think this use triggers the no scraping clause, because each search is user triggered and you’re just doing the one geocoder per search (plus autocomplete). However https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/policies#pre-fetching,-caching,-or-storage-of-content also says A…

Your coordinates are not content stored or owned by Google. No one can have claims over your coordinates no matter how you obtained them! Google’s content is defined like this in the Terms of Use: “Google Maps Content” means any content provided through the Services (whether created by Google or i…

@reiner has it right. For what it’s worth, we work with Google on maps implementation in our apps and website.

Google Geocoding API use in violation of terms?

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Google Geocoding API use in violation of terms?

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