On 18 April 2011 22:51, adamkempa <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Chris - > > So: if we are a commercial site that uses the styled map features, > 2500 users can load the API via your site before charges are incurred, > daily. > > Will there be an option to fail over to unstyled maps for users 2501 > up through 25,000? > > I'm curious: any insight into why the 10x lower threshold for styled > maps?
Surely its that styled maps use more resources. Standard map tiles are generated once, and used by everyone. But styled maps will be rendered on demand. Sure they can be cached, but with so many variations caching is going to be relatively limited (and require a much bigger cache buffer). Google probably mitigates the rendering time, by precomputing an intermediate vector format, that is stored per tile, and then styled before rendering, but its more overhead. > > -- Adam > > > > > On Apr 18, 5:11 pm, Chris Broadfoot <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Andrew Leach >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> > What make you think it's client IP? The way I read the FAQ and the >> > blog entry you quoted, it's per referrer. That is, the *site* is >> > limited to 25000 map images. That's rather limiting, so I hope it's >> > IP. I don't think it's clear. >> >> Close, but not quite. The limit is not on tiles. *Commercial* web sites are >> limited to 25,000 loads of the Maps API per day. What the user does after >> the map has loaded bears no effect on your transaction >> limit.http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#tos_transaction >> >> So, in essence, if you run a commercial web site, you're limited to 25,000 >> users loading your map each day. >> >> You can read more here:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#usagelimits >> >> Hope that helps, >> Chris >> >> --http://twitter.com/broady > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
