Hi Les, I'm not saying your info is wrong, but it might be worth double
checking this.
I remember seeing a forum discussion about another mapping app, and the
answer being that there were still be no costs.
Have you actually had a conversation with Google and got a direct answer
that this WOULD be your cost in this instance, or have you inferred it from
somewhere?
For a starter, mobile map loads and SDK API calls are unlimited and free,
and even if you are using the embedded web-page maps, you get the first
100,000 free and it's $1.60 each half a million requests after that.
A bill of $750 per month would suggest a usage over 234 MILLION requests a
month. I'm not saying your app isn't popular, but that's a pretty good
volume!
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
Might just be worth double double checking...
Jonathan
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 22:17, Les Smithson <lsmithso57@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today I've had to unpublish the NotNav and NowNav apps from the
Android Play Store and disable billing for these apps in the Cloud
Console. You will no longer be able to install NotNav/NowNav, and all
currently installed apps will stop working.
I was forced to do this because Google have enabled charging for their
Google Maps API. This would have cost me $750+ per month. This is
unsustainable. NotNav donations are negligible and few are prepared to
pay Ł10 for NowNav.
If you've paid for NowNav, feel free to ask Google for a refund,
explaining exactly why you want your money back.
In the four years since I first publish NotNav I believe it have been
genuinely useful to some. Its a shame that Google's greed has finally
killed it off.
--
Les Smithson
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