How to not throw your app into the trash bin by choosing the wrong geocoding service provider?

How to not throw your app into the trash bin by choosing the wrong geocoding service provider?

How to not throw your map application into the trash bin?

One StartUp wanted to create a super-smart map application that analyses the reachability of the locations and shows where are the best areas to live to decrease commute times.

He decided to choose the best providers to provide the best service. By googling, he found that Google Maps API is the best for geospatial services.

The app was popular, and he was delighted until he started to receive invoices, which were month by month scarier and scarier.

Do you always read properly terms and conditions of each and every 3d party service provider? Right! He didn't as well! So then he studied how he can reduce expenses and found that actually, he can't!

  • It's not allowed to cache data
  • It's not allowed to use cheaper services to replace some parts of map application
  • At the end, it is even not allowed to include the found addresses to the reports

The only way was to throw all the modules related to maps and geocoding into a trash bin and rewrite the app!

Read this article to avoid this kind of problem by choosing maps and geocoding service providers:

Oh, yes, that was one of our projects in the past ))

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