I'd really like to know that too. It can't be too cheap to serve that many views reliably and quickly. OTOH, they are just NYC and they were already doing some

I'd really like to know that too. It can't be too cheap to serve that many views reliably and quickly. OTOH, they are just NYC and they were already doing some things (like geocoding) themselves, while the google maps price included features they would never use (even implicitly, eg the cost of acquiring street data in other countries has to be figured into google's cost structure).