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While Google isn't exactly doing that here, it's coming awfully close.
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?
Seems to me like Google has only two dials: free or expensive. For example, in the case of Google Apps, the jump from free to $50 per account / year is rather steep imo. $4 fee for each 1K over seems rather expensive. Anybody know the price range for the subscription?
I agree with you that Google's Apps pricing is steep, but I don't think they're marketing it towards the average guy who just wants a couple of email accounts for his personal site. I think they're marketing it towards businesses and schools who see $50/acct/yr as pennies compared to hosting their own email server, hiring a sysadmin (or telling their current admin to handle it), and then supporting that server all da…
Reposted from other Maps thread 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?
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
So to avoid it in that sense you'd have to force every one of your clients to go grab an API key and input it.
I guess this was inevitable. But maybe we can switch to a different maps API? Google is so smooth though.
Reposted from other Maps thread 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?
I think the Maps API is different than the Geocode in that the Maps API requires you to grab a key here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html So to avoid it in that sense you'd have to force every one of your clients to go grab an API key and input it.
I remember in the 90s when we lambasted Microsoft for cornering markets with free products (IE) so they could drive out the competition (Netscape) and eventually start charging for them when we had no other choice. Luckily that never really happened, Microsoft never started charging for IE. While Google isn't exactly doing that here, it's coming awfully close.
Seems to me like Google has only two dials: free or expensive. For example, in the case of Google Apps, the jump from free to $50 per account / year is rather steep imo. $4 fee for each 1K over seems rather expensive. Anybody know the price range for the subscription?
I agree with you that Google's Apps pricing is steep, but I don't think they're marketing it towards the average guy who just wants a couple of email accounts for his personal site. I think they're marketing it towards businesses and schools who see $50/acct/yr as pennies compared to hosting their own email server, hiring a sysadmin (or telling their current admin to handle it), and then supporting that server all da…