Since the iPhone MapKit doesn't allow geocoding (address -> lat/long), would it be allowed to query maps.google.com directly?

Question

For example, you can make a request like

http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=1600%20Pennsylvania%20Ave,%20Washington%20DC@&output=csv

and simply get the response

200,8,38.8987480,-77.0366260

So I guess the only question is whether Apple would approve this in an app. Or is there a better way?

Answer 1

I think some applications are using such refferences already... I believe the app "Dig to China" does as example. But there are other services, such as Geonames: http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html

Regards,
Paul Peelen