Friday, December 22. 2006

[Update: Apparently Not] New Google Maps API Terms of Use Limit Geocode Requests to 50,000 per Day

I just saw this on ZDNet: According to the updated Google Maps API Terms of Use, there is a limit of 50,000 geocode requests per day per Maps API key. If you exceed this 24-hour limit, the Maps API geocoder may stop working for you temporarily.

This is likely to affect users with popular mashups that rely on this feature.

[Update] Mea culpa. Thanks to reader Frank Taylor, who pointed out that the 50,000 requests per day per Maps API key is not new. There is some new language in Google's updated Terms of Use describing what might happen to those who exceed the limit (geocoder might stop working temporarily), which hardly warrants a blog post. As I keep telling my son, haste makes waste...

Posted by Atanas Entchev at 15:52 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

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The 50,000 limit per day is NOT new. It's been that way since they released geocoding last June. A simple search on the Google Maps API blog:

http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006/06/geocoding-at-last.html

#1 Frank Taylor on 2006-12-23 06:49 (Reply)

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