I'm developing an application which needs to connect to Maps and do some Geocode. I decided to use GoogleMaps, anyway Im about to use their tool and it ask me about set a bill account. The problem is Google offers a lot of products (Google Cloud) which I do not really want, is it possible to pay just for maps? and where I can set that?
Besides, I am also using Firebase (which I know is a google service), can I pay for this two services in a plan? or are completely different products?
you pay as you go there... and don't pay for what you not use.
See the Firebase Pricing, for more details on the available plans.
GCP Pricing is far more complex, due to lots of services being available.
Now I've found it, here's the new Google Maps API Pricing.
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we want to create bicycle sharing project where google map is a must thing
we are willing to use flutter for that how ever it is totally depend on us which platform should be used.i am too much confused which platform should be used.
i have reseach and creating some sample apps in flutter and found that there is stability problems on flutter and integerating with google map is not up to the mark or not too much smart like uber (we want same look and feel like uber,ofo,uride).
please suggest which platform should be prefered.
Implementations like the rideshare companies you mention utilize several different Google Maps APIs, so it would go beyond just the google_maps_flutter Package functionality. A common example would be using Directions API[1] and Distance Matrix API, Web Service HTTP requests to generate routes and how long it'll take for all the nearby drivers to get to a user.
That's not to say it isn't possible with using multiple different other plugins (I've seen some for Google Maps Web Services for Flutter here[2]. It would be interesting to see how these applications perform in comparison to native Android; but I'm not sure if there's enough data to say yet.
[1] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/directions/intro
[2] https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/google_maps_webservice
I'm currently developing a small webpage for a customer where i need a simple map with pins. It's really basic usage and the customer is going to hit the page maybe 50-100 times/month, what is a good service price-wise? I have tried contacting google, bing, and two local (swedish) providers, but the customer service is.. not good...
Your problem is that you say it's an "internal" project - I assume this means that it's not hosted on a publicly-accessible webpage?
For non-public sites, both Google and Bing require you to take out an enterprise licence agreement, which is normally prohibitively expensive for small businesses. (Licences are individually-negotitated, but think of the order of $10,000 per annum).
Alternatively, you could look at using the Leaflet JS map control (http://leaflet.cloudmade.com), displaying data from open street map (http://osm.org) - both of which are free and open source (and, in many cases, have higher quality data than either Bing or Google anyway)
ask about the new Bing Maps CRM licensing thats available, it may well meet your needs and be cost effective for you
I'm working on an idea for a service that uses geocoded data (lat/lng) form a US address. Google maps API v3 has been awesome, until I read the terms of service and acceptable uses a little closer. The problem is that the terms seem to prohibit use of the maps API for any commercial use where the site is not freely accessibly to the public, such as a subscription based service. The alternative offered is Google Maps API Premier, but at $10,000 per year minimum, it's just not possible at this time.
Same goes for services offered by Yahoo! and MS - initial fees are small for enterprises, but for a very early stage startup (not even a finished prototype yet!) it's just not doable.
Geocoding process needs to be real-time and volume would be very small - user would enter address at setup time and only update it if needed.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
I've used geocoder.us for a few projects. They do require sign up for a commercial license, on the upside it only costs $50 per 20,000 lookups. I haven't used their commercial services though to know how reliable they are, but during startup and especially because there will primarily only be one lookup per user from what you say, this seems like a safe bet.
The software company I work for (Safe Software) has incorporated a geocoding service into our product (FME). The service is pxpoint from Proxix. I hear good things, so perhaps it's worth checking them out?
WorldWeatherOnline offers a geocoding API as part of their weather forecast service. The accuracy isn't great though. In some parts of my country, I'm getting bogus results. Their support has not been helpful in this matter.
Just started testing Zoho Crm as a CRM solution for our company. Someone asked for a Google map on the page showing our upcoming engagements.I know Zoho provides an API that allows accessing its data from the outside, but I actually need to integrate the map on the data-entry form.If anyone could provide a pointer to any mashup with Zoho CRM (be it Google MAps, Bing Maps, or any similar web service), I would be extremely grateful.
I know this is an ancient question, but since there's no answers and this is pretty much all that came up on google when searching for Zoho CRM integration with Google Maps I'll take a stab at this anyway. I recently got a similiar request, but in this case they wanted to display the leads on a page outside of Zoho.
I created a Java servlet and JSP that runs on Google App Engine. The servlet will connect to Zoho CRM to retrieve all leads and geocode the addresses they are registered with. The client-side Javascript is then taking care of creating the markers on the map for all the addresses.
It's a bit too much code to paste here (although not that much), but you can check it out at http://code.google.com/p/zohomap/.
I put the demo up at http://zohomap.appspot.com/.
I know this is an old question, but it came up on Google Search. About three years ago, I start a similar Google Maps integration project for SugarCRM. The JJWDesign Google Maps project is up on GitHub.com. The idea came about during a marketing meeting and quickly grew out of control.
Download at:
https://github.com/jjwdesign/JJWDesign-Google-Maps
Here are some of the pitfalls that I've experienced:
Exceeding Limits of Geocoding: The Google Maps API v3 has in place a limit of 2,500 Geocoding requests per day. It is also throttled to 10 per second. So, you'll most likely need to develop something to queue these requests. I used a CRON/Scheduled Task to handle the processing trigger.
PHP Memory Limits: The design of SugarCRM creates rather large objects for each one of it's records. Using 10,000 of these objects will usually exceed the memory allowed for PHP to execute. So, special consideration may be needed in examining the best way to pull data into the map.
Always develop/test with a large data set; 10,000+ records. This way you'll be able to more easily see inefficiencies in your code; especially JavaScript. The IE Browser has been know to cause issues with MarkerClustering.
Get ready for an explosion of interest in advanced search / filtering functionality. Also, expect to develop a large section of Admin configuration. Everyone wants something slightly different.
Cheers,
Jeff
I thought of using map in my blog. So which api will suit for me??
I am expecting that map should have more features. I dont know how to use it.. Sorry if my question is silly.
I need docs of both. Please let me know??
Both mapping API's are well documented by the respective parties, just google it and you'll find what you need. The MS Api is a little more restrictive but then the MS maps have better support for bringing up nice looking pop-up boxes etc.
The only real considerations after working with both are design and whether you need https support or not because Google maps will give IE users on https a nasty security dialogue pop-up that won't go away unless you pay Google $10,000 (but being for your blog I wouldn't imagine your fussed about that)
They are both pretty similar. I have used Google Maps API and it is very easy to get up and running and does everything I need. It also has street view which is a nice extra.
You should provide us more details in order to get a better answer but I will give you my thoughts anyway:
I have used the virtual earth API in a project I did in 2007. By that time we decided to go for the MS version as it had a better documentation and would fit better with our technology set i.e. MS SQL, .NET etc .... and best of all: it was for free!
Google at that time was offering a nicer UI for maps and stuff but after a certain number of requests you would start getting charged....
If you are developing in .NET I would certainly go for Virtual Earth now as Microsoft has shipped the official virtual earth sever side control ....
Some links:
http://dev.live.com/Virtualearth/sdk/
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
Personally I think Virtual Earth is an inferior product compared to Google Maps with Street View. I haven't looked at either API but my experience with using other web based APIs from Google and Microsoft is that Google exposes a lot more functionality. The web is their bread and butter. It's a defensive action from MS. I love MS btw, so this isn't a hater ranting...
Pretty sure that MS Virtual Earth will require your users to download a viewer specific to actually see and interact with the map. The Google API will work directly with the browser. Really it comes down to what sort of functionality are you looking to include? if you just want to display various places on a map then GoogleAPI will work fine for you, if you want to be able to do an exploded view of a location from 3 miles away and then zoom in on it like you would if you approached it in a fast moving plane then MS Earth.
Google Maps API or MS Earth Developers