Hi Shaun,
Thank you for your message. This is the bit that I had questions
about:
"What transaction limits apply to the Maps API?
There are currently no limits on the number of web based
JavaScript or Flash maps a site can generate. However the Google Maps
API Web Services and Google Static Maps API do have daily limits that
are specified in their documentation.
From October 1st 2011 commercial web sites and applications using
the Maps API may at no cost generate:
up to 2,500 maps per day that have been modified using the
Styled Maps feature
up to 25,000 maps per day in total
If your application qualifies for and exceeds these transaction
limits after October 1st 2011 you will need to respond in one of the
following ways in order to continue using the Maps API in your
application:
Modify your Maps API application such that the number of
transactions generated per day is reduced to below the usage limit;
Enrol for automated billing of excess transactions (pay as you
go); or
Purchase a Maps API Premier license"
The link is: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#usagelimits
I'm trying to figure out whether I'm limited to 25,000 page views per
day.
Thank you.
-Laxmidi
On May 4, 1:30 pm, Shaun <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's no limit on the number of users so far as I know, can you link into
> the TOS or copy the exact text so I can google for it (is this by client
> IP?). From the last time I was looking through the TOS (it's changed since)
> I believe there were only limitations imposed on the number of geocoding
> requests made. If you already have your lat/lngs in a DB or can pre-compute
> them rather than basing them on user input (as in you don't let the user
> just put in an address and decode but rather you're working with a static
> list of locations) then I don't think your likely to hit this limitation.
> Depending on the concurrency of usage among your users you could run into
> DOS responses from google maps service as well if the requests are happening
> too quickly for these geocoding requests but I don't think the same holds
> true for tiles (so far I've never seen that issue arise though I have
> seen/experienced the DOS response when making a ton of geocoding requests in
> a loop). Generally speaking it seems like the maps team is pretty lenient
> in their reading of their own TOS, I've seen quite a bit of code out in the
> wild and on the forums here that I would consider questionable in terms of
> the TOS but have never really seen anyone enforcing it or telling someone
> else they need to abide by xyz aside from having the site in a "public
> space" and not doing anything that seems like tile scraping. As it sounds
> like this is a commercial product I understand the concern and would try to
> call someone at google to see if they can supply an answer without having a
> premiere account what your limitations would be (maybe ask for a premiere
> sales person and they should have the info).
>
> If you find out more details and it turns out there is some limitation based
> on "users" please post back as I'd like to be aware of this for future
> clients. On these forums I know Pamela Fox and Thor Mitchell tend to
> "moderate" from the google side so perhaps they'll chime in on here.
>
> Thanks,
> Shaun
>
> PS searching the TOS the only ,000 I see is:
> (b) *No Direct Marketing.* You must not print more than 5,000 copies of
> sales collateral materials containing a screenshot of the Content for
> purposes of commercial sales lead generation ("*Direct Marketing*") or
> incorporate the Content as a core part of printed matter (such as printed
> maps or guide books) that you redistribute for a fee. You must contact the
> Google
> Maps API Premier sales
> team<http://www.google.com/support/enterprise/bin/request.py?contact_type=...>
> to
> obtain a direct license if you desire to do either of the above.
>
> What section are you looking at in there?
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