On May 7, 4:50 pm, Joaquin <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a BlackBerry application that uses the Google Static Map to > get simple maps images to show the location of ATMs (the map request > is without pins nor routes as we draw them manually… we just specify a > center and a the dimensions). The first problem that we had was that > when we tested the application using WIFI it worked correctly but when > we tested it with 3G connection did not. Analyzing the problem we > detect that it happened because all the 3G connections of a Carrier > uses the same IPs so for Google they are all “the same viewer” (and > quickly exceeded the usage limit).
That's right. It's a known issue, mentioned here several times. And on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10420327/google-static-maps-via-iphone-connected-to-att-wireless-network-not-working > We solved that problem making our WebServer to request the Google > Static map images (the BlackBerry application requests the WebServer > for the map image and this WebServer request it from Google). Is this > the correct solution?. It's probably the only viable solution. > After doing that, what we notice now is that by doing some little > testing (for sure less than 100 requests) we rapidly get the “Limit > usage exceeded” and as far as I know, that should not be happening > since the limit is 1000 per day: “1000 unique (different) image > requests per viewer per day” (https://developers.google.com/maps/ > documentation/staticmaps/#Limits ). It is important to mention that > this application is not in production and I am the only user that is > testing it. > > Why we are getting the “Limit usage exceeded” son soon?, It may be a rate limit, and you're requesting images too quickly. In other cases, the daily limit is split into chunks: it's possible that the Static Map limit is similar and you can only do 250 unique requests per six hours, or maybe even split into two-hour timing periods for which the limit would be 83. Unfortunately Google have largely stopped frequenting these groups and have handed off support to the Stack Overflow community, who decided that this sort of non-programming question doesn't fit that site. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. 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.
