On Aug 14, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > On 08/14/2012 04:04 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote: >> I'm thinking of adding a Google layer to check some data. I remember >> hearing that the Google plugin (whatever it's called) had a limit on how >> many image requests it could make per day. Does the OpenLayers plugin have >> any limit for a Google layer? > > I'm an extensive user of the 'OpenLayers plugin', and never have had any > problems with the number of images. > The premium key Yves is talking about is only for really heavy traffing > generating websites. > And IF you have Google Troubles, there is also the OpenStreetmap (and/or?? > Bing layer... not sure of this one). > > So I would say: go :-)
I poked around at Google. Premium is probably the business API. It looks like the free maps API allows 25,000 map requests per day. That is quite a few. Further reading of the faq shows a potential future problem - the static map API (which I assume is what the plugin uses) used to not require a key, but now does, but it still supports old applications that don't use a key. Maybe someday this will change, requiring users to get their own key to configure with the plugin (capability would have to be added to the plugin). ----- William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ [Trillian] What are you supposed to do WITH a maniacally depressed robot? [Marvin] You think you have problems? What are you supposed to do if you ARE a maniacally depressed robot? No, don't try and answer, I'm 50,000 times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer... - HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
