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As far as I know google street view costs money from this month, and it's not exactly cheap, $14 for a thousand streetviews: https://cloud.google.com/maps-plat
by dmortin 8y ago
As far as I know google street view costs money from this month, and it's not exactly cheap, $14 for a thousand streetviews:
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/ https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
I wonder if this tool stays free, lots of site owners are complaining about paying much more with the new pricing.
- criley2 8y agoIt'll be an interesting thing. They definitely understand the gaming angle due to Pokemon Go causing them to specially create tools and customize their API for gaming: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/gaming/ https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/gaming/ But that seems to be Enterprise level only. They seem to have already updated for the new level. They also have advertisements and are a profitable business. My guess is that they "Contacted Sales" like the Gaming API asks you to do and have a very agreeable discounted rate.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoI've never seen a third party site using streetview so not much will be lost. But considering the effort and volume of data they have meticulously collected you can't blame them for monetizing it directly. Google is going to learn their lesson with the insane pricing on regular maps, though.
- dmortin 8y agoThey could monetize it by putting ads on the maps/streetviews. They are an ad company after all, so they should have an option to show a map with ads for free, or without ads, but then it costs money.