Retrieving latitude and longitude via Google Maps API

Does anyone have any experience retrieving latitutde and longitude for
an address from the Google Maps API?

This thread from r-sig-geo may be of interest:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2010-March/thread.html#7788

In particularly, note that what you are doing is against the google
terms of service.

To do it legally, with minimal cost, try https://webgis.usc.edu/.
It's free for <2500 addresses, $20 for 10,000, and $160 for 100,000.

Hadley

Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
http://had.co.nz/