is it possible to have an application (web-based) with google map api that works even without internet connection?
Say have to cache or store the map somewhere, so that when there is no internet connection the application still works.
I doubt it. Google Maps is a web service, which you can place into your application via an API key.
Therefore, you'll need to have an internet connection to actually make a call to the Google Maps web service to validate your API key and load it.
I'm assuming you mean a web application running internally within an intranet to access Google maps. This link might give you some clues evn though there seems to have an Android version of this feature. A google search on "offline google maps" returned quite a few Android links
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I am implementing Google Maps in my web application. Since Version 3 I don't need an API key for accessing their servers.
Google is limiting the requests, though.
How are they doing that? If external users are accessing my website, one map load is generated.
Do I have now about 25,000 map loads per IP address or how to they
recognize my application?
They probably use the location/domain of the current document(this detail will be sended to the Authentication-service).
But as long as it's not documented this may only be an assumption, you'll have to ask google how they do it.
Is it possible to host a deployment of google maps locally so that users, on a small local network, do not need an internet connection? This is for a tradeshow project that will not have internet connectivity.
I'm hoping to get an answer from Google on this, the Dev site suggests that this is the place to ask.
As far as I am aware it is not possible, the library functions often call external services for processing and the map tiles themselves cannot be downloaded. You could on the other hand use a local copy of OpenStreetMap as a base layer and then either use a local copy of the maps API over the top (being careful which methods to call to avoid errors) or even using OpenLayers for your mapping functionality.
Hope this helps.
Recently Google released a new version of their Google Maps which lets you save an offline version of a particular chunk of the map. At the same time I've been playing around with making an Android app which uses the Google Maps API, and I was just wondering... is it possible in some way to get that offline map and get my application to use it? So that my application doesn't need an internet connection either?
I'm aware that OpenStreetMap is an alternative but I don't think it'll work with the project I have in mind.
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that may be a violation of Google's Terms of Service.
Have a look at this: How to cache Google map tiles for offline usage?
Is it permitted to use the Google Maps API (ver 2) in offline mode if I use OpenStreet tiles?
If so, how can I do this? I can store the Google JS file locally (main.js). What else do I need to do?
It is not permitted according to the Terms Of Service
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html
It is also unlikely to work, as the API Javascript is designed only to work online e.g. it must be able to talk to Googles servers.
I'm embedding a map on a page via https URLs but I'm still seeing resources loaded via http:// in the Net tab in Firefox. I've done some Googling and everything I'm finding is about the Google Maps API. Has anyone gotten this to work over SSL before?
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/03/maps-apis-over-ssl-now-available-to-all.html
Ismail is right - check out the thread on Options for Google Maps over SSL.
Personally I had to migrate my Google maps to Bing for the https connection api.
The Google map apis should now be available over https - but at least from my point of view there may be clashes with the licence (not-for-profit organisation but the site is access protected).
Have a look at Mapstraction if you want to swap map interfaces around to try them out.