[Google Maps API v2] What are the REAL usage limits of the static map API?

Hi,

According to: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/staticmaps/

"The Google Static Maps API has the following usage limits:
25 000 free static map requests per application per day."

Now, that's bullshit. I've done a few hundred requests, maybe a couple
of thousands, but NOT EVEN CLOSE to 25000, within a few minutes, and I'm
already getting the 403 response with the image indicating exceeded
usage limit.

So is there some other limit that is not documented? Perhaps a maximum
of requests per hour or per minute? Any other undocumented restriction?

Or maybe I'm getting a bogus response for some other kind of error which
is not really a usage limit issue?

When will I be able to do requests again after that? 24 hours?

thanks
m.

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