The Google Maps API daily query limit has been reached!

[Juan]

Hello

After the recent update, I am getting this message at the top of my admin page after entering an event:

The latitude and longitude for your venue could not be fetched. The Google Maps API daily query limit has been reached!

Is this a substitute for the old: OVER_QUERY_LIMIT?

Many thanks

Juan.

[Brook]

Howdy Juan,

I would love to help you with this.

It is a more descriptive version of that same error. The root problem is still the same as you’ve hit in the past — shared IP and someone else on the same server is using up your queries.

Have you looked into switching servers? Many hosts offer a dedicated IP for a few bucks more a month, or will swap you to a different shared server/IP for free. If you can find a different shared IP that doesn’t go over the limit you could stay at the same cost.

• Brook

[Juan]

Thanks Brook,

I’ve opted to hire a programmer to sort the issue out by using my very own Google Maps API key, while staying on the same shared server, hence, my Host – apparently – cannot change me to another server, odd.

Many thanks, I’ll keep the post updated once I’ve resolved the situation.

[Brook]

Interesting. I hope that works out. I’m sad to hear your host can’t be of more assistance here.

It’s worth mentioning we are looking into bypassing the server entirely in the future, and doing all geocoding requests on the client side. This will help avoid this error in most every case, but is still at least a few releases away from becoming a reality.

Let us know if you need anything else. Cheers!

– Brook

[Leah]

Hello!

I’m happy to report that we have been working on this feature for our upcoming 4.2 release. The new features for each of our plugins are currently being tested by our QA team and by our beta testers. Soon we’ll be putting the finishing touches on the code and then shipping the new versions out to our lovely customers.

Thank you for your patience while we worked on this. We appreciate your support! Keep an eye out for version 4.2 coming your way in the coming weeks.

Cheers,
Leah
and The Events Calendar team

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