Could someone advise on the quota limits to Google maps geocoding api? I’m using geocoding on android. The Google maps Api site states the limit is 2,500 per day. Is this total for the API key? or per IP address? I have found this article:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/geocodestrat.html#quota-limits
which states that the quota limit is tied to the ip address, however this is referring to websites. Can anyone answer this? Obviously this is a huge difference and 2,500 geocode lookups per day per device would be enough for most applications.
From what I understand it’s per single IP address per day. This is the exact machine making the request. So if someone else was using your application it would limit it to their machine.
Your API key can be used from multiple devices. This same principle applies to all of Google’s APIs. I use the translate API, and if I was limited to per API key I’d be screwed and would max out.
Of course this doesn’t apply if you pay Google for use of their API (Billing in the API console). I pay a lot for Google Translate API