Or raise the API usage costs from under $100 a month on average to over ~$15,000 a month like they just did/are doing with the Google Maps/Places/Geocode API's.

Or raise the API usage costs from under $100 a month on average to over ~$15,000 a month like they just did/are doing with the Google Maps/Places/Geocode API's. Not kidding. They're shutting thousands of websites, businesses down because of this. They gave everyone two months notice to effectively shutting them down.