Google Api or not?

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JamieD

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I am not a big fan of the google api, not because its not great. but more about the limitation. 25000 request a day. It should be enough for a day, But you just need to get some jokers (competitors) to abuse it and your form can be useless. unless you pay of course. You could use a country, city, state db but that means you gotta keep updating it and hoping the sites (mostly gov) that maintain the maps keep updating and also keep the same format. and you have to do a check once in a while.

Both can be troublesome. for me the google api seems like the easiest way and also looks nice since you can use 1 dropdown instead of 3 and it automatically gets updated.

What would you pick?
 
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