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  • #950542

    Does anyone know how the new pricing plan for Google Maps will affect users of Enfold? I’ve never been aware of this before but now I’m getting lots of emails from Google warning me of new prices.

    Is having Google maps on my websites now going to be a chargeable thing?

    Any help with this would be great

    #950652

    I was about to ask this question…thanks johnosjourney
    I’ll closely follow the answer.

    #951326

    Hi,

    I’m not aware of anything like that, do you have a link to where we can read up on this?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    #951403

    Hi Rikard

    Google says : “Today we are announcing important changes, including our new name – Google Maps Platform, a simplified product structure, pay as you go pricing for all, and more. Please take a few minutes to review the announcement to familiarize yourself with the upcoming changes.

    We would like to highlight a few updates that may impact your implementation. Beginning June 11th, we are launching our new pricing plan and providing all users access to support. We’ll continue to offer a free tier — all developers will receive $200 of free monthly usage of our core products.

    In addition, this change will require you to enable billing and associate it with all of your Google Maps Platform projects. Creating a billing account helps us better understand your usage so we can continue developing helpful products. It also allows you to scale easily with less downtime and fewer performance issues if your product grows beyond the $200 of free monthly usage. For additional visibility and control you can set daily quotas or billing alerts.

    You can follow those links

    https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/user-guide/
    https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/

    Regards

    #951750

    Interested in this too. I just created an API key under a new Google account and Enfold doesn’t see it as valid. The key is a valid Maps JavaScript API key, it is the correct value (copied and pasted), there are no restrictions and only Yoast SEO plugin installed.

    Edit: It’s connected. Took about 3 hours to recognise the new Key.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Rustybucket.
    #951774

    I hope future versions on Enfold allow us to use maps from openstreetmap.org or even Bing as an alternative to this.

    #951985

    Hi,
    From the latest Google release, sites will have “25,000 free map loads per day” The new charge should not affect very many.

    The Google Maps Web APIs (Maps JavaScript API, Maps Static API, or Street View API) offer 25,000 free map loads per day. If you enable billing to access higher quotas, you are billed $0.50 USD per 1,000 map loads over the daily limit of 25,000, up to a maximum of 100,000 map loads daily.

    Source
    Hope this helps.

    Best regards,
    Mike

    #952143

    Nice find Mike, cheers for that.

    #952146

    Nice, Thank you Mike

    #952434

    Hi,
    Glad we could help, Thank you for using Enfold.

    Best regards,
    Mike

    #952545

    I’d much, much sooner prefer to have an alternative implementation over Google Maps – every single API key needs billing information attached to it, and on the chance that the site runs over the free tier’s limit, the percentage price hike of the service.

    This is of pretty critical importance to us.

    #953314

    Hi,

    That is quite understandable. However, please do note that the implementation of another script will require some time. The current limit of 25000/day is quite safe and on the chance that you’ll exceed the limit, personally, I’ll be happy. A lot of users are visiting your site. :)

    We will forward the thread to the development team.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    #957047

    Alternatively you could embed a Google map without any API key.

    #957048

    That’s possible and is usable for a lot of circumstances, but unfortunately that’s a separate thing to the Google Maps method integrated in Enfold.

    #957049

    Why, just set the size of the map according to your needs, copy the embedding iframe code and paste it into a text block. No rocket science. ;-)
    But admittedly you don’t have much scope for design this way.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by Stephan_H.
    #958437

    Hi,


    @Stephan_H
    : Yeah, that could be an alternative but the options are quite limited. :)

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    #958463

    No custom colouring/styling, need to load an iframe, and it’s not actually built into the theme so full-width etc is a different story. I can indeed embed an iframe, but it’s not the same and there’s a reason the embed map is different from the others.

    #958469

    @Ismael, @chiligroupharstad: Agreed. But there might be a number of use cases where a standard Google map simply is sufficient. This can then be done without having to deal with any Google API issues.

    #958875

    Hi,
    Great tip, thanks.

    Best regards,
    Mike

    #960434

    I’m still looking for clarity on this but I’m not sure the post Mike referenced above is correct. Google’s post https://mapsplatform.googleblog.com/2018/05/introducing-google-maps-platform.html states:

    ‘…We’re simplifying our 18 individual APIs into three core products—Maps, Routes and Places…’

    and

    ‘Beginning June 11, you’ll need a valid API key and a Google Cloud Platform billing account to access our core products. Once you enable billing, you will gain access to your $200 of free monthly usage to use for our Maps, Routes, and Places products.’

    If you then look at their new pricing page https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/ you get 28,000 dynamic map loads per month and it’s $7 per 1000 loads thereafter. So, if you currently use 25,000 per day it’s going to cost you around $5k per month to continue using.

    Does Enfold use Dynamic Maps?

    #961223

    Hi,

    Unfortunately that is an update from google.
    We will check if there are other free ways to do it and can be handled.

    Best regards,
    Basilis

    #977935

    What about giving us an alternative option for Bing Maps (or other platforms?)
    With Google Maps being charged soon, this will affect us all.

    #979116

    Hi,

    We will sure discuss it with the development team and look for alternatives, but you can always also simple just embed an HTML to put a map inside.

    Best regards,
    Basilis

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