Hi,

I work on a solution to display a static map on cell phones.
But I've a problem : there are very often quota overflows (so i can
see this picture : 
http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/images/quota.png).

The fact that a mobile operator use a same IP address for thousands of
phones seems to be the problem. I read on a google group that google
knows the IP addresses used by operators and modifies quota for them,
nevertheless it's doesn't seem to be the case for all of them (I'm
french, so I tried with our three operators : Orange, SFR, Bouygues
Telecom.)

The only way I found to avoid the probem is to develop a proxy that
will request the image from the google API and next will send it to
the client. So, the proxy can count the number of requests and stop
sending new ones when quota overflows (in order to avoid
blacklisting).

What do you think about this solution ?
Is it allowed by the Google's terms of use ?

A simpliest way to do would to detect the quota overflow and to store
th status for 24h. Does the API send a specific header in its response
when quota is overflowing ?

Thanks,

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