What is a good, unlimited alternative to Google Pl

问题:

For my project I've been relying on the Places API to search for POI's based on a desired query string and distance from a given point. As things are scaling up, however, I'm hitting the usage limits for Places really fast. Does anyone know of another API that doesn't have usage limits (or significantly more uses) that could substitute for the Places API?

Thanks

回答1:

First up, I hope you know that you can bump your Places API quota from 1,000 queries/day up to 100,000 queries/day just by verifying your identity? This doesn't cost anything. And if even 100,000 QPD are not enough, you can purchase a Google Places API for Business license.

But to actually answer your question, I'm not aware of any alternative that's both good and unlimited. The main competitors with worldwide coverage are:

• Foursquare Venues, which is limited to 5,000 queries/hour. Here's a lengthy point-by-point comparison of the two.
• Factual's Global Places, limited to 10,000 queries/day.