My client uses Google Static Maps on their property rental pages. Twice this month, he got a terrible Google Quota image instead of where the map should be on the page (see https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/images/quota.png ).
He notified me after every time this happened, but the static map on the page loaded correctly for me. He and I viewed the page through a proxy server, and it also appeared correctly.
I checked the logs of my site in 2 days, and only 841 and 1,910 pages were loaded on the entire site. These were higher volumes than regular days, but in no way would explain the achievement of 25,000 Google Static Map price lists. Image size is only 375 x 275 pixels.
Question: why did he get the image of the quota, and not me (or the proxy server)? If it is based on an IP address, it works on a very small network, and the office will not collectively load this particular page 25,000 times. My client uses Google Maps a lot. Is it possible that maps.google.com is adding its own downloadable pages to download a shared IP address page from other sites? Any explanation would be most helpful. Thanks in advance.
FYI: here is the image tag that we used for at least a year, without incident until this month (edited):
<img src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=28.4039,-81.337&maptype=terrain&mobile=false&zoom=13&size=375x275&markers=size:small|color:blue|28.4039,-81.337&sensor=false&key={omited}&style=feature:road.local%7Cvisibility:simplified" width="375" height="275" alt="Location" class="map_canvas" />
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