Hi Thor, So according to what you said only the 0,35% of the sites is over the 25.000 limits. This is a big surprise for me considering that 1 map load = 1 transaction! So we have 2 options:
1) the 99,65% of the sites don't consider the maps as an important feature for their core business. 2) the 99,65% of the sites have found a way to offer a great map service without go over this limit. I'm very curios to know how! My site is based on maps. I'm offering a tool to calculate an itinerary with public transportations for my city. So i can't take off the maps. I don't believe that i'm over the limit, but sure i'm quite near it. Before this news i hoped that my site will grow in the future, now i hoping that it remain stable! (is not this absurd?) I'm happy to know to have a site that is near the 1% of the "top player" of Google maps, but i can assure you that i don't gain from that enough to pay for the 99% of the developers. I think that this quota is too low, and don't take in consideration the sites that are focused on maps. I think that the heavy users of the maps are the most important for Google. They are developers that spend a lot of time on your API, give you a feedback, have helped to grow this product... and now are the ones that must pay! For example... i'm very interested in styled map, fusion tables ecc... but now... why spend my time to integrate them if i know that these are absolutely anti-economic? Do not get me wrong, i'am grateful to Google for the support in this years with its great services... so as long as i can i will try to continue to use your maps. If i will find a way to gain enough to pay my costs, i will be happy to give my contribution to the community. Thanks Davide On 31 Ott, 09:08, "Thor Mitchell (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 31 October 2011 01:48:26 UTC+11, John Coryat wrote: > > > We should be given a choice of shutting the site down when the 25k limit > > is reached or paying to keep it online. > > You will have that choice. You can set a Maximum Billable Limit, which is > the maximum amount you are willing to pay per day. If you exceed that limit > on any given day, then the site will stop serving Maps for the rest of the > day. You can set that limit to be $0 if you wish. > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > We looked into this, but even if we took 100% of Ad Unit revenue from > sites, we would not generate enough revenue to cover the cost of serving > those sites, given the average RPM of the Ad Unit. Plus it's a goal of the > pricing not just to cover the costs of the affected sites, but also the > costs of serving the sites that are not paying usage (ie. it's the revenue > from the 0.35% of sites that are paying that secures the future of the > service for the 99.65% of sites that are not). So if we were to offer a > choice between showing the Ad Unit and paying, we would need to both > increase the RPM of the Ad Unit somehow (eg. show more ads), and also force > the Ad Unit on every site unless they opted to pay. I'm pretty confident > such a policy would have generated several orders of magnitude more anger > amongst the developer community than just asking the top 0.35% of sites (by > map volume) to pay at the rates published. Not to mention the fact that the > Ad Unit is not suitable for small maps, or any non-JS map (eg. > Static, Flash, Street View Image, etc.). > > Many thanks, > > Thor. > > > > > > > > > > > -John Coryat -- 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.
