tj89

It's ridiculous the story is about enabling smaller developers when they just screwed a bunch of small developers with their pricing changes with only 30 days notice...

"do no evil"...

any luck on getting a response?

100 users hitting 10 pages a day = 1000 map loads a day. 1000 map loads a day * 30 days = 30000 map loads which is over the "free" amount. This assumes NO api calls at all, only map loads.

This change will affect all apps that have any sort of actual user base. I think you may be underestimating the how quickly you can go through API calls even without many users.

While I understand they want to make money, giving developers 30 days to now pay 40x what they paid before is ridiculous.

I don't think that's specific enough. For example all the places API calls are grouped together but there are 13 types at different prices. I don't see any way to figure out how much we'll be paying.

For me looks like I went from basically free to $600/mo just for map views. I have no idea how much more I'll have to pay for API calls because they completely obfuscate the data.

Now we have 30 days to figure out how to make the money work or find another solution. Pretty crappy of an API provider (let alone Google) to do this. At least now we know not to trust our apps / sites infrastructure to Google... they aren't the same "do no evil" company they used to be.

While not to your degree I'm in a similar position. They only gave us 30 days to figure all this out which is ridiculous.

Where did you find your monthly API calls? I can't seem to get any numbers other than daily for the last week

you got 30 days. hope you got nothing else planned... ruins my current roadmap.

and you have 30 days to somehow make it work or switch. for an API service that's seems pretty irresponsible to it's users. You would think they'd give you a few months notice at minimum.

don't forget they are raising their prices a ton as well

So all those sites have 30 days to figure out something or start shelling out money? That's really short notice

From what I can find the "dashboard" only shows the highly variable "per day" numbers so you can't even see how many calls you're doing per month... which is pretty shady

For a company that touts "do no evil" they are going to hurt a lot of free websites and small businesses / projects with basically no notice.