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Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 19 January 12 12:09 pm
by 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?
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 19 January 12 3:21 pm
by 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?
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 19 January 12 3:34 pm
by Keeper of Time
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 19 January 12 5:37 pm
by 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.
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 20 January 12 6:32 am
by 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!
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 21 January 12 4:49 pm
by 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.
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 21 January 12 4:58 pm
by 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
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 10 February 12 6:20 pm
by The Spindoctors
Might explain why the other site went to OSM/MapQuest. Would they serve up that many?
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 10 February 12 6:39 pm
by CraigRat
The Spindoctors wrote: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.
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 10 February 12 6:58 pm
by Laighside Legends
CraigRat wrote:
Every cache page has one...
Every page has two doesn't it?
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 10 February 12 7:05 pm
by caughtatwork
Laighside Legends wrote:CraigRat wrote:
Every cache page has one...
Every page has two doesn't it?
Static maps don't count, only ones from the API.
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 15 February 12 11:14 am
by Hoojar
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 15 February 12 11:41 am
by mtrax
yes it looks like they will be converting to OSM maps.. including hosting there own tile/map server
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 15 February 12 5:52 pm
by blossom*
And yet another reason to use GCA for the superior map functionality
Re: Google maps and GCA usage
Posted: 15 February 12 7:00 pm
by caughtatwork
Yay. Go us for being so niche.
Oh, hang on.
