{"id":782,"date":"2012-01-28T18:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T00:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=782"},"modified":"2012-01-21T18:11:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T00:11:58","slug":"moving-away-from-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/782","title":{"rendered":"Moving away from Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/773\">Google Maps charging<\/a>.\u00a0 This caused an uproar around many map dependent sites. \u00a0 (Brian Timoney, ever reliable, <a href=\"http:\/\/mapbrief.com\/2012\/01\/10\/why-we-havent-found-the-21st-century-business-model\/\">delivers snark<\/a> on that front.)<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, don&#8217;t begrudge Google the chance to charge for their excellent product.\u00a0 What that does, however, is make certain business models that were previously viable now unviable.\u00a0 That is, if they remain with Google Maps.\u00a0 In my previous post, I went over some alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The company I work for, after evaluating all the alternatives, including paying Google for a license, has decided to go with Mapquest.\u00a0 While the <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.mapquest.com\/web\/products\/featured\/javascript\">API<\/a> is not as gorgeously documented (both on the company site and on the web), it has the same licensure as Google Maps used to (free for any publicly accessible website), with much of the same base functionality.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be very interested to see how many people are doing such high value work with Google maps that they can afford to pay for licenses or per use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I wrote about Google Maps charging.\u00a0 This caused an uproar around many map dependent sites. \u00a0 (Brian Timoney, ever reliable, delivers snark on that front.) I, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}