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A package for plotting maps in R with ggplot2
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Change in Google Geocoding API billing #227

Open isteves opened 6 years ago

isteves commented 6 years ago

Hi there! I just came across this as I was trying to figure out why mutate_geocode wasn't working for me: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/usage-and-billing

All Google Maps Platform API requests must include an API key; we no longer support keyless access.

I'm not clear how you dealt with cases without an API key before, but I imagine this change may require some changes with error messaging/etc. Happy to take a deeper look into it if needed.

alistaire47 commented 6 years ago

The free, keyless tier of the API no longer exists as such; now you have to use a key and Google gives you a $200/month credit. The client and signature parameters currently allow authentication, though googleway::google_places's approach of just a key parameter is a bit simpler.

geocode probably needs to be updated, but the function API will need to change a little, so the maintainers will need to decide what it should look like.

wnpr commented 6 years ago

When I define a key using register_google, I find mutate_geocode works great.

But I'm still limited to 2500 queries a day, even though billing is setup on my API to allow for more.

Is there a workaround for this? Apologies if I'm missing something obvious.

collinschwantes commented 5 years ago

There is a day_limit parameter in the function that should allow you increase the number of requests you can make per day.

When I use the geocode API provided by google I get a 100% fail rate with all requests returning "Over Query Limit" errors. I'm pretty sure i'm using the geocode API key. What am I doing wrong?

library(ggmap) register_google(key = 'MyApiKey') Locations <- geocode(Mylocations, output= "latlon")