Geocode addresses with Google Maps API without burning budget

domain: google-maps · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Use the Geocoding API with components filtering (country) for precision
  2. Cache results — geocoding the same address twice is wasted spend (caching geocodes is permitted with restrictions)
  3. Set a daily quota cap in Cloud Console as a billing fuse
  4. For autocomplete UIs use Places Autocomplete with session tokens (per-session billing, much cheaper)

Known gotchas

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