I realized that to load a streetview I have to load the API and there is when the charge is made, as it happens with the maps.
Now, a question for Thor or managers of this project. Why are you trying to make a few developers pay the service for the rest? Let's do some numbers. I use Amazon Web Services. To access 1000 times a file, and to upload 1000 files to the server I have to pay only $0,011 cents. In bandwidth, considering an average of 20k per file, will be $0,025. for storage it's almost the same, just $0,02 per 1000 files of 20k. So, I have to pay a total of $0,056 cents to store and read 1000 files. With this business plan, making a small group pay for the whole service turn those few cents into $4 dollars. Which is incredibly expensive and impossible to afford. In other words (and sorry for this), the business plan sucks. I pay a total of $70 per month to Amazon and I manage millions of files per month (currently I'm having more than a million access per day). I also have three VPSs that I get for around $100 a month. I will be glad to pay $20 or $30 a month for the Google Maps service. It will be a great deal and affordable for almost anyone that is trying to do business with their website. Instead of making a small group pay a lot of money for the whole service you can make everybody to pay a reasonable amount ($19.99 ?) and keep a free service for bloggers and very small websites that we all will be happily paying for. This business model is putting a cap, limiting projects and making impossible to scale. I have being working for a month on a project that now I realized that when I get over the limit I will have to suspend, because the prices make the scalability just impossible. I hope you will reconsider this and come up with a better plan according to real-life projects. Thanks JD -- 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/-/Fs3ToE5Uv14J. 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.
