I’m working on an app that involves the Google Maps API and I’m worrying about the 2500 daily geocode limit. It’s not clearly defined to me on what counts as a geocode though. For example:
- I can get my current location from my GPS, but when I display those latitude and longitude coordinates on a MapView does that count as one?
- Getting an address out of coordinate counts for sure
- I’m assuming getting directions from point A to B counts as a geocode?
I want to display a bunch of hardcoded coordinates on my MapView, but if there are 30 of them then would that count for 30 geocodes? Also, if I updated my users GPS location on a MapView every 5 seconds, would each update also count as a geocode? I want to make it so that users can get directions from their current GPS location to one of the points, which I’m assuming would take up a geocode as well. If I hardcode the point in, would getting directions from one set of coordinates to another set use a geocode?
I could see my app reaching the geocode limit with 10 users… which does not seem right. Can somebody give me a clear explanation on what does/doesn’t count? And any tricks to reducing the number of geocodes I make would also be useful, thanks.
According to this: http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/03/introducing-new-google-geocoding-web.html you are allowed 2500 requests per day per IP address, so if the requests are from different users on different devices, then you should be OK if they don’t all make 2500 requests a day.