[Qgis-user] Google map request limits?

[William Kyngesburye]

On Aug 14, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:

> On 08/14/2012 04:04 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>> I'm thinking of adding a Google layer to check some data.  I remember hearing that the Google plugin (whatever it's called) had a limit on how many image requests it could make per day.  Does the OpenLayers plugin have any limit for a Google layer?
> 
> I'm an extensive user of the 'OpenLayers plugin', and never have had any problems with the number of images.
> The premium key Yves is talking about is only for really heavy traffing generating websites.
> And IF you have Google Troubles, there is also the OpenStreetmap (and/or?? Bing layer... not sure of this one).
> 
> So I would say: go :-)


I poked around at Google.  Premium is probably the business API.  It looks like the free maps API allows 25,000 map requests per day.  That is quite a few.

Further reading of the faq shows a potential future problem - the static map API (which I assume is what the plugin uses) used to not require a key, but now does, but it still supports old applications that don't use a key.  Maybe someday this will change, requiring users to get their own key to configure with the plugin (capability would have to be added to the plugin).

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