Should i pay for google places

Geocoding convert address into GPS coordinates latitude and longitude. It also allow Reverse geocoding , which convert GPS coordinates latitude and longitude into address. You can estimate the potential cost with the Pricing Calculator. If you app or website is very popular, most likely you can no longer offer it for free.

Did Google over charged? I suspect they probably subsidies the cost all these while, and the party had ended. Google also announced it was extending this contactless payment feature to public transit users. The feature will be available through the iOS version of the Google Maps app soon, the company said. The transit feature will include more than 80 transit agencies globally.

Data requests generate a charge in addition to the cost of the Places request. Data charges are always in tandem with the Places requests. Using the fields parameter in your Place Details or Find Place request, you can limit the response to only those fields specified. Fields in the Basic category are included in the base cost of the Places request and do not result in any additional charge.

Fields in the Contact category result in an additional charge. Fields in the Atmosphere category result in an additional charge. Calls made from an invalid Autocomplete session for example, a session that reuses a session token are also charged an Autocomplete — Per Request SKU.

The autocomplete request is free, and the subsequent Places Details call gets charged based on regular Places Details pricing described below. To avoid paying for data that you don't need, call Autocomplete.

Pricing by Autocomplete session is not supported using Query Autocomplete. Subsequent Places Details calls get charged based on regular Places Details pricing described below. You make a Place Details request and specify all the fields this type of request is the default if you do not specify any fields : getPlaceDetails. You can use the Places Details request to refresh stale place IDs. These types of requests are free. Like Place Details requests, you can use the fields parameter in your Find Place request to limit the response to only those fields specified.

You are billed for the Find Place request as well as the data requested. By default, if NO fields are requested, only the place id is returned, so no additional data charges are incurred. By default, if no fields are specified in the Find Place request, only the place id is returned. You make a Find Place request and do not specify any fields: FindPlace. Nearby Search requests return a list of places, but do not support specifying which fields are returned.