Google Maps enhancement ban

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

Do you know - by experience or not - after how many GByte of "abuse" Google blocks your Map Enhancement tool client? 

Asking for a friend 🙂

Thanks!

[grandfred29 180]

I don't know but i fly with it all the time. Sometimes it refuse to connect me an pro server 1, so i go to server 2 

Sometimes clear cache résolve the problem 

[edpatino 1,965]

Don’t know and don’t want to know 🤣

[Bobsk8 12,754]

I use it all the time, never have had any issue. 

[TacomaSailor 191]

I use the Pro version several hours a day and am word not allowed of a "ban" or "blocking."  How would I know if it were happening?

Here is what I find in my Google Terms of Service and Quota specifications.  I see nothing about total usage over time - just rates and sizes of requests.

Adjustable quota limits

The following limits may be adjusted on a per-user or per-project basis. See the help page for how to request additional quota.

Quota type	Default value
Max concurrent requests (standard endpoint)	40 concurrent requests
Max concurrent requests (high-volume endpoint)	40 concurrent requests
Max rate of requests (per project)	100 requests/s (6000 requests/min)
Max rate of requests (per user)	100 requests/s (6000 requests/min)
Average concurrent batch tasks	2 tasks (on average)
Max asset storage space	250 GB
Max number of assets	10,000

Concurrent interactive requests

Each project can make interactive requests in parallel, up to a quota limit. If the limit is exceeded, Earth Engine will return "HTTP 429: Too Many Requests" errors. Generally, these errors are handled by the Earth Engine client library, which wraps requests in exponential backoff, retrying the query until it succeeds. The Earth Engine client library will retry the request up to five times.

To help avoid receiving these 429 errors, you may want to enable caching for your application, for example using memcache, to avoid redundant queries when possible. If using an older version of the Earth Engine client library that does not retry queries automatically, or if a query is still not completed after five retries, you may need to implement exponential backoff around requests.

Rate of requests (QPS)

In addition to the concurrency limits, Earth Engine limits the rate of interactive requests at the project and user level. These settings can be adjusted in the Cloud Console

Edited January 31 by TacomaSailor

[Sethos 4,364]

Never heard anyone banned by using the Map Enhancement tool, you simply don't download enough data. You'd need to be using something like Ortho4XP, download large amounts of data consistently, to see a pattern and ban you. Just slowly flying over some terrain uses less data than just opening up Google maps and using it.

[Bobsk8 12,754]

2 hours ago, Sethos said:

Never heard anyone banned by using the Map Enhancement tool, you simply don't download enough data. You'd need to be using something like Ortho4XP, download large amounts of data consistently, to see a pattern and ban you. Just slowly flying over some terrain uses less data than just opening up Google maps and using it.

You can see the amount of data that the map enhancement mod uses, it is really low. 

[paulwain 24]

Does anyone use the Pro version? Is there Much difference between pro and the free version? (Apart from updated maps)