Discussion: Potential apis for data

[stevengill]

For venus, we have a few options:

• Google Places: Free up to 25,000 map loads per day. This assumes we fall under the free category. If we fall under asset tracking, then we have to contact google about pricing.
• Foursquare: 5,000 requests per hour to venues endpoints. 500 requests to most other endpoints groups per hour. This is what untappd uses.
• untappd: 100 calls per hour per key. Would be nice to add some untappd information about the venues.
• Yelp: 25000 calls per day.

I recommend using foursquares venu api. Add on the untappd api for more info where it makes sense.

[filmaj]

This is awesome!

We'd hit the 25k per day Google Maps limit just loading the map on the app first. The messed up thing about the Google Maps API: Android/iOS native access is free, but the JS API falls under the 25k limit? That's so ..weird!

Agree with your plan, start with foursquare and the requisite minimum for Google Maps, work in other sources later somehow.