Question

I know that saving the geocoded lat,lng in a DB (or other media) ,
is against the Terms Of Use, but what if i “take” that point (of course while displaying it on the map) and instead of saving that lat,lng in the DB , i save:

lat + C , lng + C 

where C is some const.

Later when i query from the DB , i query lat – C , lng -C.

Is this legal ? currently i don’t have the $10k needed and i do want to use their geocoder.

Thanks

Answer 1

When you steal a wallet and put a own dollar into it, is it legal then?

However: it’s not illegal to store the latLng’s somewhere as long as you store them there to use them later only inside a Maps-API-application.

https://developers.google.com/maps/faq?hl=en#geocoder_exists