Why Am I being Rate Limited? I Am Not Exceeding Any Quotas

[rob...@kalosflorida.com]

I am making 18 requests to the Javascript (client-side) Distance Matrix API over the span of 9 seconds (1 per 500ms). Each request contains 11 elements (1 destination, 11 origins).

That's 2 requests per second, and 22 elements per second. Theoretically I should be able to make ~6-7 requests per scond with that amount of elements and have no issues but even at 2 requests per second and 22 elements per second I am getting a status of "OVER_QUERY_LIMIT". I don't understand this or why it's happening. Can someone please clarify what I am missing?

[and...@google.com]

The Distance Matrix quota is measured in elements per second, not in requests per second.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distance-matrix/usage-limits

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