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Organisations are now being charged for each API call they make on the Google Maps Platform which has resulted in a surge in company billing. However, there are ways that developers can significantly reduce costs by limiting their Google Maps usage. Here are four questions to consider: HOW INTERACTIVE IS YOUR MAP? Are you using…
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the challenger brand in the cloud space, trying to make room for itself in a market dominated by AWS and Azure. Ease of use, usage based billing and discounts and some really powerful machine learning tools is how GCP is differentiating itself amongst the competition who have been around for…
Google has changed the way it structures licensing for Google Maps Platform customers and applications that were once using Google Maps for free are now faced with uncertain pricing per month. Receiving a shock Google Maps bill could be due to inefficient coding or a lack of understanding of the changes that are taking place.…
If you’ve built an app in the past for Android or iOS you would have benefitted from Google’s generous usage limits for mobile, most of which were unlimited for Maps API. Under Google Maps Platform, map loads through the Mobile SDK are still free, but all the other services you might rely on are on…
The new commercial model of Google Maps suits businesses really well with its monthly, pay on consumption billing, but the new price table can lead to unexpected costs. You might have been on the free version of Google Maps (the now-deprecated Standard Plan) and now find you are having to pay for usage you previously…
Google Maps Platform is changing the way that the Maps APIs are paid for, which might impact your business model. Clients on the legacy Premium Plan in some cases will find they are now paying less than before and in most cases there will be little difference in price. For users of the deprecated Standard…
Location Intelligence platform creators CARTO have announced the launch of Airship, a front end design library for map applications. Airship provides developers with pre-built code snippets to create customisable and beautifully designed user interfaces. It allows for an intuitive experience for both developers and the end users. Airship is one of the tools CARTO released…
If you’re a Premium Plan customer whose licence expires after June 11, 2018 there is a risk you will be paying twice for the same service if your licence key is not correctly implemented in your code. For some customers there will be a period of up to 15 months where the old Google Maps…
Under the new Google Maps Platform pricing model there will be various changes to the way you are billed compared to the current Google Maps API Premium Plan. Some applications that previously required a licence will be free going forward, but others that enjoyed a daily bucket of free credits will be more expensive. Knowing…
NGIS is proud to announce it is the first private organisation to partner with the newly formed FrontierSI. FrontierSI is a research and development centre bringing together government agencies, businesses and educational institutions to provide spatial information. FrontierSI is the successor entity of the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) and will officially launch…
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