Google maps and GCA usage

[mundoo]

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?

[mtrax]

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?

[Keeper of Time]

http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com ... -maps.html

[caughtatwork]

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.

[CraigRat]

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!

[mundoo]

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.

[CraigRat]

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

[The Spindoctors]

Might explain why the other site went to OSM/MapQuest. Would they serve up that many?

[CraigRat]

Might explain why the other site went to OSM/MapQuest. Would they serve up that many?

Yep.

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.

[Laighside Legends]

Every cache page has one...

Every page has two doesn't it?

[caughtatwork]

Every cache page has one...

Every page has two doesn't it?

Static maps don't count, only ones from the API.

[Hoojar]

It seems that GC use 2,000,000 maps loads each day.

http://blog.geocaching.com/2012/02/new- ... -com-maps/

[mtrax]

It seems that GC use 2,000,000 maps loads each day.

http://blog.geocaching.com/2012/02/new- ... -com-maps/

yes it looks like they will be converting to OSM maps.. including hosting there own tile/map server

[blossom*]

And yet another reason to use GCA for the superior map functionality

[caughtatwork]

Yay. Go us for being so niche.
Oh, hang on.