{"id":773,"date":"2011-12-08T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=773"},"modified":"2011-12-06T09:10:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T15:10:35","slug":"google-maps-is-now-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/773","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps is now charging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if you reach a certain number of mapviews.\u00a0 You have up to 25K\/day mapviews free, which works out to just over 9 million map views a year.\u00a0 My understanding of those limits is that they are per-business, not per domain or site.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/introduction-of-usage-limits-to-maps.html\">the announcement on their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatives for javascript map generation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd877180.aspx\">bing<\/a>, though they only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/maps\/product\/terms.html\">offer 500,000 mapviews\/year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mapquest.com\/web\/products\/featured\/javascript\">Mapquest<\/a>, which recently <a href=\"http:\/\/devblog.mapquest.com\/2011\/11\/17\/no-preset-limit-on-free-map-api-transactions\/\">announced no mapview limits<\/a> (other than for service degradation)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstreetmap.org\/wiki\/Develop\/Frameworks#Webmaps\">OpenStreetMap<\/a>, which has a number of vendors which use their geodata (<a href=\"http:\/\/cloudmade.com\/\">CloudMade<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chitika.com\/maps\">Chitika<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mapquest.com\/web\/products\/open\">MapQuest<\/a>).\u00a0 If you want to use OpenStreetMap tiles directly, make sure you follow their <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstreetmap.org\/wiki\/Tile_usage_policy\">usage policy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstreetmap.org\/wiki\/Tile_Proxy\/squid\">cache them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google Maps has made mapping ubiquituous (I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/mapbrief.com\/\">Brian Timoney<\/a> would agree), and in doing so has done the web a great service.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see what happens as they try to charge for this service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if you reach a certain number of mapviews.\u00a0 You have up to 25K\/day mapviews free, which works out to just over 9 million map views a year.\u00a0 My understanding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gis","category-google-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}