Google maps usage fees

Re:Google maps usage fees by willfully_lost on Thursday October 27, 2011 @11:37AM (#3163652)

Aren't the limits IP based? This page on Google's 'Geocoding Strategies' seems to say so: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/geocodestrat.html#...

So as long as your call to the Maps API goes out client side, aren't you ok?

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Re:Google maps usage fees by sv123 on Thursday October 27, 2011 @12:41PM (#3164016)

I am confused about this too. It seems like 99% of sites using maps would be doing it client side in which case the cost change wouldn't be a big deal, but maybe I am missing something.

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Re:Google maps usage fees by Stratoscope on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:00PM (#3164134)

They are talking about client-side APIs, but the limits are not per client IP address. They can look at the referer header to see what site embedded the map.

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Re:Google maps usage fees by sv123 on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:03PM (#3164152)

Not if your pages are https.

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Re:Google maps usage fees by ohashi on Thursday October 27, 2011 @02:12PM (#3164617)

Google blocks you from seeing referred search terms and you flip it around so they can't see what server the requests on their API are coming from. Seems kind of fair, right?

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Re:Google maps usage fees by Stratoscope on Thursday October 27, 2011 @12:58PM (#3164122)

They can and presumably do look at the referer header on the requests for .js files and map tiles.

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Re:Google maps usage fees by willfully_lost on Thursday October 27, 2011 @01:15PM (#3164240)

So you think that the Geocoding API will work via IP limits as described in the link I provided, but regular Maps API calls will be subject to domain limits?

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Re:Google maps usage fees by ajtaylor on Thursday October 27, 2011 @12:03PM (#3163800)

Probably, since the new JS Maps v3 API a key is no longer required.

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