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Sites with Google maps starting to fail
With the massive price spike in Google maps, some sites have started having map failures. Any interesting ones you've seen? What changes have you made due to it?
A coworker this morning reported that he couldn't order pizza last night on his mobile because the Google map was "in developer mode", and he couldn't get past it to order. Via his desktop he could. Also a health provider had broken maps.
We ended up setting up our own OSM-based tile servers, and are going to be deploying them possibly today. My vacation and a service credit from Google delayed the deployment until now. Can't wait to get over to the OSM-based tiles, and in the grand scheme of things it was fairly easy (maybe 2-3 weeks of effort, all in).
What are your Google mapocalypse stories?
- ColinWright 8y agoI have a "friends only" facility that renders a map perhaps once a week. That's now failing, so I'm looking at using a GeoCoding service instead. The pricing model that Google has is a reasonable price in terms of actual money, but the hassles I'd need to go through for such a small thing are just too much. So I'm going elsewhere. It's not a big deal, it's not a mapocalypse, but it's anecdata.