Intranet/Enterprise API use.

I know about FAQ #4. (http://www.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#faq4)

Bret Taylor said last July, "We are listening to feedback on other uses
that are not allowed by the API (enterprise use, business-to-business
sites, etc), and we hope to meet more site's needs in the future,
though we have no specific plans at this time."

That seems to be the last, best word from Google on the issue, am I
right? In that case, here is some feedback.

My company would gladly pay a reasonable fee to be able to use the
Google Maps API and Canadian map data in a customer service intranet
application. I'm not sure exactly what 'reasonable' would mean, but we
pay a few dollars per user per hour for long distance phone service,
and if I were pricing a mapping service I might try to hit the same
sort of target. I would estimate our users would request perhaps five
to ten maps per hour, and scroll/zoom around each map for a minute or
so.

Maybe I'm out of line with that pricing model. I don't know what costs
Google has to license data and provide the service. It may be possible
for us to pay considerably more than this if I were to do a
cost-benefit analysis of the efficiencies Google Maps could bring to
our business, but 'similar to long distance service' seems like a sweet
spot, if you can hit it.

We would expect this to be an ad-free service, and if Google could not
provide geocoding we could get that service elsewhere. We currently
have no use for routing, hybrid/satellite maps, or other features, but
if we did, we would be happy to pay for them in a tiered fashion.

In my opinion, Google Maps is preferable for intranet applications over
other services because of its clean, simple and fast UI. Mapquest
offers enterprise licenses, but I haven't even gone as far as finding
out what their pricing model is. Time is money, and the Mapquest UI is
so slow to work with that their service is too expensive to use even if
they give it away. That may be an exageration, I should probably give
it a second chance. The Google Maps UI sets expectations high, though.

I don't care about brand. I'm happy to work with the first company who
has reasonable licensing fees and a decent UI. Google has half of that
nailed.

That is my feedback, I hope it is useful.