[Talk-GB] Elections Online website - candidate for OSM?

[Mark Goodge]

On 03/12/2019 15:21, Edward Bainton wrote:
> Interesting. Do they pay Google for the map and tileserver use (even if 
> they don't realise that's what they're paying for)?
> 
> Or rather, since they've clearly not updated whatever agreement they had 
> with Google for a while, /if/ the map were functioning would that mean 
> they were paying Google?

Depending on how much usage it got, yes.

All Google Maps API usage now requires an API key. Each key has to be 
associated with a billing account, and all usage is chargeable. But each 
billing account gets $200 credit every calendar month, so if your total 
usage is less than that it remains free.

(There is still an embeddable non-API version of Google Maps, but it's 
very limited in functionality).

Mark