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Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by pveugen »

buckhx wrote: post #63
pveugen wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mapbox offers maps, geocoding, and directions, with solid coverage in Australia. https://www.mapbox.com/geocoding/ Happy to answer any questions. Disclaimer: I work at Mapbox.

Does mapbox provide place details data yet? Last time I spoke w/ sales it was a planned feature, but not released.

What kind of places details are you looking for? Depending on the geographic region, Mapbox has data for regions, cities, addresses, zipcodes, and points-of-interest (POI).

This is the coverage per region: https://www.mapbox.com/geocoding/#coverage

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by jakecopp »

robryan wrote: post #83

I don’t know how competitive the pricing is, but it is interesting how the comments go when Google does try and charge a high price for something over simply monetizing via advertising. I wonder if the perception would be different if Google Maps were a standalone startup developing a world class mapping product. Where the common manta would be along the lines of double your pricing.

I think the problem is users don't want to pay and have their data scrutinized for ads. It would be like if you paid Facebook and still had your data going to many third parties.

I think Mapbox has a very different reputation for this reason (also they contribute back to OpenStreetMap).

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by tj89 »

jedberg wrote: post #74
canada_dry wrote: post #57

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The only silver lining is that www.openstreetmap.org (OSM) will hopefully get more love. Since google admits that 98% of current users will continue to incur 0 cost this is simply a blatant way of getting a real name associated with their user data.

Why does everyone always assume the worst? > this is simply a blatant way of getting a real name associated with their user data Or maybe it's a way to control access to their systems in a more reasonable and auditable way, and prevent some abuse too.

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

Re: Google Maps Platform

#104

Post by tj89 »

kinard wrote: post #12

WOW, my costs are going to go from about $320 per month to $3,750 per month. Time to find a different solution! GULP!

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.

Re: Google Maps Platform

#105

Post by tj89 »

dmortin wrote: post #42
puzzle wrote: post #30

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Are all those loads needed? In other words, how often do people interact with them? (Figuring how often they look at them is even more effort.) This kind of changes usually are made to discourage inefficient use of the API, which could be delayed until specific events happen: scrolling, mouseover, timer, etc. I'm not saying that's necessarily your case.

I can probably lower the loads somewhat, but I use other maps services too (street view, etc.) and this $200 free credit seems like for all of the services combined monthly, so one does not get a $200 free credit for each service and costs will quickly add up.

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

Re: Google Maps Platform

#106

Post by jakecopp »

reustle wrote: post #33
m-localhost wrote: post #18

I 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.

Just click the edit button on https://www.openstreetmap.org/, I find the interface quite nice. It's quite addictive!

That being said, I don't know of a similarly easy to use editor on Android for simple things like adding opening hours or addresses.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by puzzle »

mtmail wrote: post #84
puzzle wrote: post #72

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How long does it take for an edit to propagate from OSM to Mapbox's tiles? Average/worst case. I know this is a tough problem, so I don't envy you. :-)

Mapbox no longer guarantees a time ( https://twitter.com/Anonymaps/status/913812009547902978 ) Worst I've read about is 3 months. That surprising because openstreetmap.org's tile servers aim for sub-10 minute updates and often I see my changes even faster. https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=61040

Well, they probably have some kind of tile "lint", need to precompute a bunch of routing data (depending on what their actual algorithm is), sync all their rendering/prerendering pipelines at a common revision, propagate outputs to cache servers, etc. So it can't easily be done at every change, unless they have a design where small incremental deltas are explicitly supported by all their services. It is a time- and resource-intensive process. Still, three months sounds like a lot.

Re: Google Maps Platform

#108

Post by RussianCow »

jazoom wrote: post #89
robocat wrote: post #88

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iOS11 added a "Desktop view" mode but I am not sure the feature is well known (Android has had the feature forever, so by mobile, you mean iOS I think). From memory, in Safari, tap share, then scroll across to desktop view. I don't have an iDevice with me at moment, but it should work.

By "mobile" I mean Android. And since Android has many browsers "Desktop view" may or may not exist, and if it does exist and can mean many different things. I don't bother to use it because I never found it to work properly. I haven't tried for a couple of years, though.

Desktop mode in Firefox for Android has always worked very well for me, if it helps.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by 2dvisio »

Wow. I teach a course of mobile programming with Android. Now I will have to remove the section explaining Google maps API as I cannot ask my students to add their Credit card info online just for the course... Any other free alternative?

Re: Google Maps Platform

#110

Post by akura »

kinard wrote: post #73
zip1234 wrote: post #13

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That is a huge increase. What services were you using?

Maps, Places and Geocoding

I'm just starting a side project that uses similar, i think it's the pricing around autocomplete and places information that seems like the most painful part to me.

Currently I'm using it to search and add points on a map, it seems like it could really add up

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