As someone who's only every used Google Maps, can anyone suggest a solid alternative? Geocoding and directions would be the minimum I'd need - with solid data in Australia.
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#32Wow, 10x price increase or more for just about everything.
It would be nice if this leads to more interest in alternatives (OSM based systems including maplet). Previously, when google made the initial shift in this direction a few years ago, it seemed like there was a brief period when more people were considering alternatives, but since most people were able to continue using the free tier this tapered off pretty quickly.
> OSM based systems including maplet
You mean leaflet.js?
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#33I wish it would be easier for people to contribute to open source projects (like wiki voyage etc) than to Google Places. (it's a bit off topic and I like the Places API, but that's a huge amount of valuable data that contributors are submitting there for free)
Agreed. I contribute to Google maps a lot and I've looked into contributing to open street maps but the options seemed pretty clunky. I recommend mapbox to all of my clients over Google maps.
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#35Wow, 10x price increase or more for just about everything.
I did some comparisons with the old pricing as well. For geocoding it seems the free tier got halved (assuming average usage over a month) while the paid tier got x8 more expensive.
(disclaimer: In case of geocoding Google is a competitor, we run https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/)
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#36Wow, 10x price increase or more for just about everything.
It's almost like Google Maps got bought by Oracle, but virtually.
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#37Does anyone know why Amazon doesn't have a maps offering on AWS? I've heard their internal logistics GIS services are pretty advanced and it surprises me they don't have a GIS category on AWS to the point I'm convinced there must some very specific reason they've chosen not to implement. Companies like MapBox and Carto seem to be doing well, Microsoft and Google have map services, demand seems to exist. Additionally…
AWS seems to me to mostly be a way to configure and sell capacity on hardware. Amazon probably has a lot of fantastic data and software that isn't available outside the company.
AWS was one of the biggest profit centers for Amazon in several recent quarters. Why they don't monetize their GIS data yet is anyone's guess.
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#38Wonder if lots of people will jump to OpenStreetMap without realizing their open tile servers aren't a free-for-all? https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/tiles/
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#39Not a native English speaker and also not that well versed when it comes to marketing talk, but what exactly does "$200 monthly free credit" mean? (from this page: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/pricing-ch... ). Do you get a sort of voucher with which you'll be able to use Google Maps services worth $200 each month? Will Google automatically start billing you once you surpass that quota? I'm in the…
From a couple points below that mention, which I think answers both parts of your question: > your first $200 of monthly usage is free, and you can set usage caps to ensure you don’t go over this amount.
What if one has multiple maps projects? Is this $200 per project or is it for the whole account (all projects combined)?
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#40is the scrollbar for "See how it works" suppose to be broken?
I had to unblock google-developers.appspot.com from loading.