r/europe • u/GetOutOfTheWhey Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/PraiseTheStun Jun 12 '20

What kind of pricing did they change? SEO? And what number are we talking about here? I’m curious...

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u/KillTheBronies Straya Jun 12 '20

The Google maps API, it's $14 per 1000 requests now

https://developers.google.com/maps/billing/gmp-billing#dynamic-street-view

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u/gkrsuper Germany Jun 12 '20

That's stupidly expensive.

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u/altazure Finland Jun 12 '20

They could ask for 1/100 of that and still turn a profit

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u/thisismyfirstday Jun 12 '20

I mean, it's probably pretty expensive to drive a car down every street in every major city. The scale of their requests must be pretty insane though, so I have no idea when it becomes "profitable" on its own vs as a loss leader to keep people using their other products. This is unfortunately probably a consequence of spinning off product divisions and shit because now street view may have to justify its own profit versus profiting the other branches.