We should be given a choice of shutting the site down when the 25k limit is reached or paying to keep it online. As stated by a previous poster, the cost of keeping the site up after the threshold is far greater than the ad revenue generated by the site. Shutting it down would be a negative to the users but the cost is so prohibitive that it's the only option as far as I can tell.
Forcing us to pay without any other options is going to be painful. Writing a self monitoring system will require shutting off the maps before the threshold is reached to ensure a safety limit. It does seem a bit short sighted for Google to force map publishers with successful sites that run AdSense to shut down or be charged an excess of what AdSense can earn. Exempting AdSense users from the limit would seem to be a good business practice. Another option might be to charge these map publishers the same rate that AdSense generates when the threshold is exceeded making the sites revenue neutral for that overage and allowing them to stay online instead of forcing a shutdown. -John Coryat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-maps-js-api-v3/-/gOQQhIDlY_IJ. 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.
