Is Google Maps API key needed if the map is simply a local HTML file?

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Our customer needs an application that allows them to input an address and be returned a Google Map HTML file that the user will save to the local file system. The desktop application is written in C# and geocodes the address using the Google Geocoding API. The result is rendered on a Google Maps HTML file that is written to the local machine. My company has purchased a commercial Google API key, however I don't see that we can use it in this scenario, as the domain will be unknown (We won't know where the user chooses to open the file at). The HTML file will not be stored in a publicly available location. Is an API key required? Would we be in any way breaching the TOS?

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