Google's usage guidelines state:
Web sites and applications using each of the Maps API may at no cost generate up to 25,000 map loads per day for each API
So if I have two sites on a single web server, do they share the limit of 25,000 map loads, or does each site have its own limit of 25,000 map loads?
Did you read the part when the query limit is exceeded? The Api simply doesn't compute a query and Google isn't sending a bill to you. You have to apply to the paid program yourself. I want to say you can show your user a brief explanation when that happens or redirect them to another site. Anyway it's written web sites not server so my opionion is you don't have to worry about this.
The limit is per API key not per website. But you have to "exceeded the limits for more than 90 consecutive days". Also "Non-profits and applications deemed in the public interest are not subject to these usage limits".
See the FAQ: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#usagelimits
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I have one real website using google map and It is binded with several domains. Each domain serves for a separated group of client.
Google map announces new policy updates that apply from 11th june 2018 that decrease free limit usage from 25K map loads per day to 28K map load per month
My questions is Can I use map api key which generated from separated google account to increase free usage ?
I have read this question carefully use multiple Google Maps API Keys for same server?
But link seems broken and I can't find relevant information as answer on that question or some other questions too
In my case, although my sites have the same code based and IP, however they works like different sites on shared hosts. One more thing, Google assigns free usage based on account (not google map key) so I think I can use multiple account to increase limit
So can I do this ? I don't want to break Google rules and I appreciate for any comment
You can not since is against Google terms, please check section 3.2.4.e in this link https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/#16-limitation-of-liability.
No Circumventing Fees. Customer will not circumvent the applicable Fees. For example, Customer will not create multiple billing accounts or Projects to avoid incurring Fees; prevent Google from accurately calculating Customer’s Service usage levels; abuse any free Service quotas; or offer access to the Services under a “time-sharing” or “service bureau” model.
I'm not sure if it's against the rules:
Google Maps guy said here, that it's OK https://twitter.com/GMapsPlatform/status/1001061642363461633
My company purchased a Google Maps API for Business license, but there is a lot of confusion on the quota that we're allowed to use.
I want to use this license in a new project, but I need to convince that we are well under our limit.
Here is the license that we purchased:
GM-INT-250K-OEM | Google Maps API Premier: 12 month license/support term; up to 250,000 internal page views; Maps API for
Business - internal application; 250K annual pageviews
It describes that we should get 250K annual page views. However, this doesn't make any sense because the "free" license gives 25K page views a day.
I apologize if this isn't the right place to ask this since it isn't a code issue. If anyone can confirm that the quota limit is indeed per day and not per year, that would be extremely helpful. If you can also refer to a link that clearly states this, that would be exactly what I need. For some reason, I haven't been able to find this :(
Many thanks.
It seems unlikely that your license has a mistake in it of that magnitude, but you should ask your Google sales rep if you want to confirm the numbers.
I can tell you why it doesn't seem to make sense, though: the 25K and 250K numbers aren't referring to the same thing.
The free Maps API license is for websites available to the general public at no charge, and Google is allowed to put advertising on your map.
You're not allowed to use the free license at all for an internal application.
So, the 250K annual views you get with the Business license is quite a bit more than the zero views you'd get with the free license. :-)
Also, here is a thought on minimizing your number of page views. Google counts the initial page view of a map only. Once the map page is loaded, you can keep interacting with it as long as you like without costing another page view.
So you'd want to avoid structuring your internal app with different pages that all load their own maps. Those would be individual page views. Instead, create a single-page app that loads the map once and keeps it loaded. You can even show and hide the map without costing another page view. Just don't reload the page. (And encourage your users to be economical by leaving your app loaded instead of reloading it all the time.)
I have read a lot, 1 but I still think I didn't find clear answers about the following questions:
1) A user of my web or mobile app uses an input in order to find Lat, Long of an address (I am using Javascript). Does this request represented by user's client IP or from my Server's IP?
I am asking because I want to ensure that this is a client side request in order to no overcome Google's 2,500 requests per IP.
2) Then, once I have the lat,long in my database I can draw the google map based on an array of lat, long which my user had store previously. Is this a request from my server's IP or user's IP?
Since the geocoding requests are going directly from the user's machine to Google, you are using what Google calls "client-side geocoding" which falls under slightly different licensing agreements than the 2,500/IP API limits.
Client-side geocoding through the browser is rate limited per map session, so the geocoding is distributed across all your users and scales with your userbase. Geocoding quotas and rate limits drive the strategies outlined in this article.
When running client-side geocode requests at periodic intervals, such as on a mobile app, your requests may be subject to blocking if all of your users are making requests at the same time (e.g. the same second of every minute). To avoid this, consider one of the following:
Use a caching strategy.
Introduce random intervals to your requests (jitter). Ensure requests are random across your entire userbase.
If developing for Android, use an inexact repeating alarm.
If developing for Android, select an appropriate location strategy.
In Google Maps API for Business, quotas are tied to client IDs, which provide much higher quotas. To learn more about Maps API for Business quotas and error handling, we recommend reviewing our article, Usage Limits for Google Maps API Web Services. If you're still running into quota limits using the Google Maps API for Business, file a support request here: http://www.google.com/enterprise/portal/.
What are the limits for client side geocoding with Google Maps JavaScript API v3?
My research:
Google Maps PHP API has a limit of 2500 geocode requests per day (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#Limits)
Google Maps Javascript API v3 has a limit of 25000 map loads per day (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/usage)
Google suggests using javascript API for geoocoding to avoid the 2500 limit through the PHP API. It states "running client-side geocoding, you generally don't have to worry about your quota" (https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/geocodestrat#client)
However, nowhere does it state in any of the documentation what the geocoding limits are through the Google Maps JavaScript API v.3.
(This has been bothering me for a while, and I have researched it on more than one occasion and failed to find a solid answer)
I work in Maps for Business support at Google. The following is my personal opinion, not Google's, but let's just say I'm rather familiar with this topic!
First, it's important to distinguish between client-side geocoding (JavaScript calls to google.maps.Geocoder) and server-side geocoding (HTTP requests to /maps/api/geocode). This question and answer are specifically about client-side geocoding; for server-side limits, see here. In particular, the oft-mentioned 2,500 requests per IP per day limit applies only to server-side geocoding, not client-side.
So the short answer is, there is no documented query limit specifically for client-side geocoding. Once a client has loaded the Google Maps JavaScript API library, it can make as many geocode requests as it likes, provided they're done at a sane speed. Two rules of thumb to ensure you don't run into problems:
Initiate geocoding in response to user interaction, and you'll be fine even if there are short request bursts (eg. click a button to geocode several addresses).
Catch any OVER_QUERY_LIMIT errors and handle them gracefully (eg. exponential backoff). Here is some sample code in Python.
But please do not try to busy-loop the geocoder or hammer away at it for hours on end, there are protections against abuse.
UPDATE
As of 2017 the client side quota is calculated against corresponding web service quota. Please have a look at Christophe Roussy's answer.
Always read the latest you can find on an official Google website for the proper API version, a dated stackoverflow answer is not an up-to-date reference !!!
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/usage-limits
Here is what it said when I wrote this answer:
Google Maps Geocoding API Usage Limits
2,500 free requests per day, calculated as the sum of client-side and
server-side queries.
50 requests per second, calculated as the sum of client-side and
server-side queries.
Enable pay-as-you-go billing to unlock higher quotas:
$0.50 USD / 1000 additional requests, up to 100,000 daily.
In general I think Google is happy as long as the queries come from real human users as this is of some value to them.
There are also ways to save a few requests by caching results for up to 30 days:
https://developers.google.com/maps/premium/optimize-web-services#optimize
Based on https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/geocodestrat,
Client-side geocoding through the browser is rate limited per map
session, so the geocoding is distributed across all your users and
scales with your userbase.
So, what is rate limits per map session?
As geocoding limits are per user session, there is no risk that your
application will reach a global limit as your userbase grows.
Client-side geocoding will not face a quota limit unless you perform a
batch of geocoding requests within a user session. Therefore, running
client-side geocoding, you generally don't have to worry about your
quota.
Ok, what is the limit? Here we go
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/articles/usage_limits
With a rate limit or 10 QPS (queries per second), on sending the 11th
request your application should check the timestamp of the first
request and wait until 1 second has passed. The same should be applied
to daily limits.
Still not clear? me too.
This is the closet answer that I found from their document and it says "rate limit of 10 requests per second"
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/webservices/quota
I don't think a user session can send 10 requests per second, thus I consider it as limitless.
I asked this recently about the Places library (or rather, researched it and came to a conclusion):
Regarding Places Library for Google Maps API Quota limits
Basically, it seems that Map loads with key are limited to 25,000 per day per domain (that might not be right, but i'm pretty sure thats the case).
Geocoding limits are limited in the following way:
2,500 if you're using an API key without setting up billing
100,000 if you're using an API key and have set up billing
If you're doing server-side geocoding (pre-caching results or similar), then your geocoding is per domain, and you're going to run out of requests pretty quickly. (i.e. in a similar vein to if you're doing places requests using the REST API like so: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/nearbysearch/json?location=-33.8670522,151.1957362&radius=500&types=food&name=harbour&sensor=false&key=XXXX)
If you're using the javascript library, using the autocomplete functionality or PlacesService like so:
service = new google.maps.Geocoder();
then the limit (2,500 or 100,000 respectively), is per end-user, so your limit scales with your user base.
According to the article you linked (under When to Use Server-Side Geocoding):
The 2,500 request limit is per IP address.
So - what exactly do you mean by limit? Limit for the hosting application, or for a client running it?
The statement above tells me that there is no limit for the "host"; without a key or enforceable referrer URLs, there is no (good) way for Google to determine from whence a geocoding request originates. That's kind of the beauty of REST, among other things.
It also tells me that even if they could enforce it, they haven't set a limit. This would likely be counter-productive to their business model.
I need to know how to reset the query limit for the Google Maps API v3. I know that I exceeded it more than three days ago, but it has not reset and I am still hitting it if I send more then 5 requests. How do I restore it completely to be able to get that 2500 (or whatever the request limit is) again?
I need to geocode some addresses and put them (lat, lon) into a database. I have done so far 2500 addresses. I need to do another 1000 and then it will be just one request on page load.
According to the Google Geocoding API documentation, there are actually two limits. First of all, there is the 2,500 request per day limit, which you say you triggered a few days ago. However, there is also a separate rate limit, which is probably what you are hitting here.
The rate limit will prevent you from making many successive geocoding requests in a short time, which it seems is what you're trying to do. There is no way around this, since making 1,000 requests on a single pageload is not the intended use of the Google Geocoding API.
Additional, according to Google:
Note: the Geocoding API may only be used in conjunction with a Google map; geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited. For complete details on allowed usage, consult the Maps API Terms of Service License Restrictions.
This probably means that your overall plan to use the Google geocoder and store the results in a database is a violation of Google's terms of service.
If (and only if) you are going to show the results & marker on a Google Map (required by ToS), then these articles would probably help you:
Geocoding Strategies to make the right decision as to whether you need to use PHP (server-side) or JavaScript (client-side). It sounds like you're right to use PHP.
Geocoding Addresses with PHP/MySQL to do the batch geocoding, provided your use case complies with the Terms of Use ;) -- mind the paragraph about Timing the Geocode Requests as Rohan points out your issue is likely that you're sending requests too fast.