I've been using both the dynamic and static maps APIs on my sites for years; however a new issue seems to be arising and I'm not sure how to work around it.
I have a page, with a static map on the main landing page. This page has been running fine since about 2009. Recently I'm seeing the "Usage Limit" icon instead of my map on an almost daily basis. Usually by 2pm I've hit the quota. Now this doesn't mean I'm throwing a 1000 requests to Google from my page, in fact, I'm lucky to get 1000 page views / month or 500 visits (averaging about 10-100 page views / day). What I think is the problem is that I work within a Huge network, where we share an internet connection with the City Offices - I would estimate ten of thousands of users. ALL our traffic comes from the same host, so as soon as 1000 people use google static maps on my, or any other site, it flags the usage limit and shuts the maps down for 24hrs. Even the maps in the API Documentation don't load from within our network today. Is there any way to work around this issue? I can appreciate the need to limit requests from the same IP / Host, but when the host is a Municipality, with tens of thousands of users, this usage limit just plain doesn't work. Love to hear some suggestions; I'd save the map and host it myself, but I believe that is against the terms of use. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-api/-/ymr5lsRCDXUJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
