Google maps and GCA usage
Google maps and GCA usage
Late last year, google announced that soon they will start charging by the use of their google maps ($4/1000 views) above a certain level (25,000 views/day) of usage.
Does this affect Geocaching Australia and it's usage of google maps?
Does this affect Geocaching Australia and it's usage of google maps?
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
I've only heard one site which was ask to pay, have you got a link to that announcement?
ie does it affect only commercial sites?
ie does it affect only commercial sites?
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The volume of maps we display is well under the limit, so we're not expecting to pay for a long time. We only show between 500 and 1,200 maps per day.
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When that announcement was made we ran some stats.
We are well under, but I think this is the reason GC are changing some of their maps to use Bing maps and whatnot
I imagine they would be well over the limits!
We are well under, but I think this is the reason GC are changing some of their maps to use Bing maps and whatnot
I imagine they would be well over the limits!
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A site I am involved are changing. We are not a commercial site but the map is a large part of the site. We are testing MapQuest, with OpenStreetMap and Leaflet.
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You have to hit 25000 map views EVERY DAY for 90 days consecutively for them to even consider charging.
We average about 500 or so a day, so no panic here
We average about 500 or so a day, so no panic here
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Might explain why the other site went to OSM/MapQuest. Would they serve up that many?
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Yep.The Spindoctors wrote:Might explain why the other site went to OSM/MapQuest. Would they serve up that many?
Every cache page has one, and then there's the interactive maps.
With their userbase I would imagine they would be pretty close to the threshold.
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Every page has two doesn't it?CraigRat wrote: Every cache page has one...
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Static maps don't count, only ones from the API.Laighside Legends wrote:Every page has two doesn't it?CraigRat wrote: Every cache page has one...
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It seems that GC use 2,000,000 maps loads each day.
http://blog.geocaching.com/2012/02/new- ... -com-maps/
http://blog.geocaching.com/2012/02/new- ... -com-maps/
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yes it looks like they will be converting to OSM maps.. including hosting there own tile/map serverHoojar wrote:It seems that GC use 2,000,000 maps loads each day.
http://blog.geocaching.com/2012/02/new- ... -com-maps/
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And yet another reason to use GCA for the superior map functionality
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Yay. Go us for being so niche.
Oh, hang on.
Oh, hang on.