I can provide some of you with free unlimited mapdata solutions for geocoding and base layer data with accreditation. I run my own OSM server instances. Hit support on ScribbleMaps.com and ask for Jonathan so the ticket is forwarded to me.
Google Maps Platform
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Re: Google Maps Platform
#212Mapbox has an excellent alternative map platform based largely but not entirely on OpenStreetMap data. Mapbox GL JS in particular is a joy to work with and extend. https://www.mapbox.com/ It's not free, but it's very easy to use and the pricing is roughly 1/10th of Google's when you get past the free tier: https://www.mapbox.com/pricing/ Mapzen used to be an alternative but sadly they shut down. However many of their…
I'm in the process of comparing Mapbox with Google Maps Platform. The usage would be for large full-screen maps with lots of interaction. Comparing map loads/views is not apples to apples. Google counts a single map "load" similar to a page view [1]. The number of tiles loaded doesn't influence cost. With Mapbox, a map "view" is 4-15 tiles (depending on how they're styled) [2]. [1] https://developers.google.com/maps/…
Contact me at Mapfit to learn about our map tiles.
brittany@mapfit.com
Re: Google Maps Platform
#213Wonder 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/
The osm.org tile servers are run by unpaid volunteers, on donated hosting. So yes, they won't let you do whatever you want.
But with OSM you can self host and get the same as what's on osm.org
Re: Google Maps Platform
#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
StreetComplete is a very nice, targeted OSM editing app
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#215I 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!)
Will be extremely sad to see fun maps projects disappear as a result of this. We're also seeing a huge increase in cost (we are a paying user already) at https://www.openrent.co.uk/ , but I kind of hoped commercial projects would be treated differently to non-commercial ones.
OpenStreetMap is a volunteer, free data alternative
Re: Google Maps Platform
#216Mapbox has an excellent alternative map platform based largely but not entirely on OpenStreetMap data. Mapbox GL JS in particular is a joy to work with and extend. https://www.mapbox.com/ It's not free, but it's very easy to use and the pricing is roughly 1/10th of Google's when you get past the free tier: https://www.mapbox.com/pricing/ Mapzen used to be an alternative but sadly they shut down. However many of their…
Thinking seriously about switching to MapBox. Google's pricing is insane after this change -- $7 per 1000 map views!?!?! Did they add an extra zero accidentally?
Inquire with Mapfit as well to learn about your use case.
Contact me directly with website information, your current usage, and use case.
brittany@mapfit.com
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#217I just compared pricing for different providers and here are my results: Usage: 10000 requests / day Google Maps: (3600000 - (28000free * 12)) / 1000 * 7 = 22848 $ per year Yandex Maps: 360000 rubles or 5600$ per year, but much cheaper for higher volumes than 10000/day Mapbox: (3600000 - (50000free * 12)) / 1000 * 0.5 + (fix 500 * 12) = 7500 $ per year Bing Maps: No pricing on website, need to contact support
I've been researching alternatives and Mapfit offers 100,000 API requests a day for free. I haven't read the documentation but looks very promising.
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#218I 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!)
There are other pricing tiers that might significantly reduce that cost. Contact us here and we can help: contact@navagis.com
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#219Gah, this is so confusing, I've got small sites developed for clients many many years old running various maps based stuff off API Keys in my account, now I have to add MY billing information to them or get the client to set themselves up a google cloud platform account and developer and project and keys and ...... Good grief, that's totally impractical to have website administrators, my clients, to do that, even I a…
We support cases like this by using domain names as authentication.
We plan to eventually support automatic spinning off of domains into their own account (e.g., for your clients after you're finished with a project). But for now, they could set up their own account with their domain and it would just work for you as a dev.
If you're curious: https://stadiamaps.com.
Please email me at luke@stadiamaps.com if you're interested.
Re: Google Maps Platform
#220I 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!)
Will be extremely sad to see fun maps projects disappear as a result of this. We're also seeing a huge increase in cost (we are a paying user already) at https://www.openrent.co.uk/ , but I kind of hoped commercial projects would be treated differently to non-commercial ones.
This is a shameless plug for my company, Stadia Maps. We started the company because of situations just like this.
We'd be happy to talk about a much more reasonable cost. :)
Please email if you're interested: luke@stadiamaps.com or take a look at our website https://stadiamaps.com