how do the map load count?

[joe lau]

As there is the usage limits apply to the Maps API
I want to ask how it count the map load.
It add one when the GMap object was created?
Or add one when the Google Maps JavaScript API was load in the page?

[Ralph]

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/usage.html#usage_limits

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[joe lau]

thanks for your help.
I want to ask more detail that, if I include the Google Maps JavaScript API inside the page.
And I have a map icon that onclick to call the map initialize function.

If i not click on the icon, it will not count any map load.
Until I click on the icon, it will count one?

[geoco...@gmail.com]

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/faq.html#usage_mapload

But I think at one point it was counting rhe load of the API as
displaying a map; but perhaps one of the google engineers can confirm
which it is (and maybe that has been fixed).

-- Larry

[Andrew Leach]

I would suggest that if you don't want a map displayed initially (and
may never want one, if the user doesn't click the button), you don't
load the API. Load the API using the AJAX loader when the user clicks
the button. That way it doesn't matter how it's counted: it can't be
counted if you haven't loaded it.