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Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by dmortin » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:26 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #176

dmortin wrote: post #39

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What if one has multiple maps projects? Is this $200 per project or is it for the whole account (all projects combined)?

Obviously the whole account -- they're concerned with charging for usage, not how one splits it.

Not neccessarily obiovus, because the current quotas are also per project. So if you get a 1000 calls a day then every different map projects in your acocunt gets 1000 calls. This suggests the new free tier can also be per project.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:27 PM UTC

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Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by cup-of-tea » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:39 PM UTC

What they don't tell you is the underlying data is of extremely dubious quality. It's a hodgepodge of proprietary data, data automatically generated from satellite imagery and open government data from various sources all merged together in an automatic or at least thoroughly non-expert way. To a cartography geek it's an absolute nightmare.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by oeff » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:39 PM UTC

I am searching for an alternative to google maps. I am using the places-API of google maps to evaluate the branche of a company.

Often the google-places-API returns something like this:

> "types" : [ "point_of_interest", "establishment" ]

This is not exact enough. Is there a possibility to gain better information of a company by API? Thanks a lot.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by cup-of-tea » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:42 PM UTC

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.

> I contribute to Google maps a lot

Oh cool. Will you work for me for free as well? I have a lot for you to do.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by kirchhoff » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:44 PM UTC

I run https://www.instantstreetview.com which does 100,000+ 'map loads' per day. The price for these has effectively increased by a factor of 28 ($0.50 -> $14 per 1000), which is completely unsustainable ($1,400 daily!)

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by cup-of-tea » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:45 PM UTC

eden123 wrote: post #45

I find it very interesting that Google Maps has 1 billion Monthly Active Users compared to Facebook’s 2+ billion. Where is this huge difference coming from?

People who use other maps or don't use maps at all? Nobody uses a mapping solution just because their friends use that mapping solution.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by nomad543 » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:47 PM UTC

So I signed up to Mapbox, I wonder how the free tier works. I didn't enter any billing details, so what will happen if I reach the 50,000 calls within a month, will it stop working or will I be invoiced later for the calls over 50,000?

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by vlamingsjef » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:54 PM UTC

For everyone thinking they are going to be billed for unwanted overuse. You can restrict API access and rate limit the requests.

Re: Google Maps Platform

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Post by lukeqsee » Thu, May 03, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

elyobo wrote: post #145

lukeqsee wrote: post #137

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That makes sense; well, if you wish, please reach out to me at luke@stadiamaps.com We have a lot of customers in real estate, and would love to set you up with something that would be significantly less than $25k. These situations are why we started the company. :) I think our tiers work very well for the real estate space overall.

I'll have a look, thanks. Your pricing looks much more reasonable - I suspect you're going to be seeing a large spike in demand. Initial work on reducing load looks very promising though (lazy loading only when users scroll as far as the map on property pages, pooling map instances/dom elements and reusing them across a React app so that they're not recreated) - both things I really should have been doing already any…

Thanks!

Definitely let us know if we can help in any way. We're more than happy to build out any missing functionality you might need to make a transition.