High Amount of Geocoding API Requests

[samGemini]

Hello, 

I have an Appsheet app that maps a large number of rows onto the google map that Appsheet provides. There is somewhere around 130,000 total rows. These rows are being mapped using a column that contains a pair of latitude/longitude coordinates and not an address. I have enabled 'Use my Google Maps Integration' and have been tracking the amount of geocoding requests for the past month and it's really high when I believe it should be relatively low.  It is my understanding that a geocoding request happens when you want to convert an address to lat/long coordinate and vice versa.  If I'm using lat/long coordinates to place a marker onto the map, the total amount of requests should hypothetically be 0, is this correct? My total amount of geocoding api requests last month was somewhere around 120,000 and I can't seem to find any more information about why/when a geocoding request is allowed and made besides what I've read here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/usage-and-billing 

Any Ideas on where the geocoding requests are coming from? Am I correct that mapping with lat/long should yield 0 geocoding requests? Please let me know what you think and thanks in advance.

[Marc_Dillon]

Sounds to me like your assumption should be correct, lat/long not requiring geocoding that is. Did you see this article?

https://support.google.com/appsheet/answer/10106705?hl=en

[MichaelN]

I too am having a similar issue. Many of my apps use LatLong and have been in use for several years. Yesterday I received notice from Google that my cloud account payment failed (expired CC). I checked into the issue today to see an anomaly for April 3rd, geocoding requests increased greater than 1000% over what is normally requested. Google is billing us $145 for this one day alone.... After years of not having this problem, I can't figure out what's going on? Where are these requests coming from?.....

[Clemens85]

I just stumbled over this posting and I'm facing the same issue.
I try to use already geocoded addresses (lat/lng) as much as possible when using Google Maps, but suddenly I have over 100.000 Geocoding API requests, which I never had before, which  sounds quite strange to me... I can even pin down it to a only locally used API key, which I use for local development (only by myself...)