Elevation API Usage Limits

[Jason Jonas]

The elevation API documentation indicates non-premiere members have a
usage limit of 25,000 location requests per day. The docs also state
that each request can have no more than 2,500 locations.

With last night's upgrade we turned on an elevation component. It runs
every 10 minutes and makes up to 250 location requests before
quitting. Between each location request there's a 1-second pause. This
morning the logs are showing that we began receiving OVER_QUERY_LIMIT
errors after 2,500 location requests rather than 25,000 location
requests.

Have the usage limits of the elevation API changed?

Thanks.

Jason

[Jason Jonas]

Not sure if this was clear in the original message, but each location
request is a single-coordinate request.

Jason

[Jason Jonas]

I posted this over in the V2 forum as well since that's where the
Elevation API docs requested feedback. My apologies for the double-
posting.

Jason

[Luke Mahé]

Hey Jason,

We have updated the docs to be clearer, you can read them again here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/elevation/#Limits

In short you can do:

 2500 requests per day

 Each request can have a max of 1024 locations

 You can do a maximum of 25,000 locations per day.

Hope this clears things up.

-- Luke

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[Jason Jonas]

Thanks, Luke. That's in line with the behavior we're seeing. We'll
make the necessary adjustments to the elevation component to work
within these parameters.

Jason

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[Mats]

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread! Regarding the 2500 requests per day: If the requests are performed client side, is it then 2500 req per day per client or is it still limited by the site in some way e.g. by referrer?