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(I asked on programmers.stackexchange.com but my question got voted down into the negative, so I'm re-asking here.)
I'd like to use a map API for a private intranet web site I'm developing. The Google Maps API is free as long as the web site that uses it is also free. For private intranet web sites, the Google Maps API costs $10,000 US per year (or more) for a business/enterprise license which makes it too expensive for a small 1-guy shop like myself.
So now I'm looking for other options. Are there any usable HTTP map APIs that are free or lower/reasonable cost?
You might wanna check this and this too because what you think about the rules about Google Map is not entirely true. To answer your question, most other providers carry similar license agreement; plus, the solution is not hard to be found hence the voting down (I suppose, no offense).
Anyhow, try Googling OpenStreetMap, hope this helps you!
Google GeoCharts is not a street-by-street level maps and satelite pictures familiar to Google Maps users, but it worked great for what I needed. You can find it here: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geochart
(Actually, the entire Google Charts javascript library is quite amazing!)
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Working on building out a Web2Print product I need some kind of editor that will allow a user to manipulate graphics and ultimately generate a PDF. There are plenty of HTML 2 PDF APIs available but I was hoping someone might have experience with something a little more integrated and suited for dealing with graphics/fonts/text?
In PHP the best opensource option is TCPDF http://www.tcpdf.org/
I wanted to answer this and update everyone on the solutions that I found. Through the Magento extension store I was able to find several commercial (although still very reasonably priced) solutions:
http://www.zetaprints.com/ and http://layoutbuddy.com/ look like the most full featured and supported (as well as no up-front licensing.)
Thanks for all of the responses!
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I am looking for a couple of options to load test some asp.net applications with authenticated users. Does anyone have any suggestions? I prefer open source or not very expensive tools. Thanks.
Open source tools will have some limitations. A good value tool like StressTester would be my recommendation as you'll get more reliable results (based on personal experience). Depends how important the applications you're testing are as to what you go for.
Apache JMEter
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Fore more, Google for "open source load testing libraries"
Alos look at this post How good is JMeter for testing ASP .NET webpages?
AppLoader works well with authenticated users. Though not free, you can get a free trial.
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I'm looking for a free web-based TTS engine, that I may use in a commercial project. I'm not saying there's one, but I hope somebody might know if there was.
Thanks!
The only freely available web-based TTS engine that I am aware of is Google TTS. There is a blog post on how to use it. The problem with using it commercially is that it is not an official Google API (most solutions to use it have been hacked) and therefore subject to change without notice. For a commercial application I would pay for a good TTS engine. Another option is to get a freely available TTS engine and create your own SaaS.
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I have to develop an commercial application with mapping.
I can't use Google Maps because of the 10k$/year for the premier API...
I tried Mapstraction with OpenStreetMap, nice but with some limitations.
There is no geocoding available apparently.
Is there a good free(or affordable) service available anywhere with mapping & geocoding functionnalities ?
Thanks
If this question is still valid, I think you should check Open Data Map APIs, in Open Web Services section. No limits, no signup tricks to get the API keys, everything free for real!
There is a pull in github for the feature : https://github.com/mapstraction/mxn/pull/98
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I want a text-speech API that works over the web. Google Translate unofficial API doesn't fit because I need to read more than one paragraph and they're limited to 100 chars.
I checked iSpeech, but they require a telephone call to buy credits and since this work maintainers do not speak english and this type of billing/selling is pretty ridiculous, I'm looking forward for another alternative.
Anyone?
EDIT: It must have an pt-BR voice.
I was searching for the exact same thing, I needed pt-BR voice too, and I have just quit using Google TTS because it has got some limitations, bugs (with sentence punctuation endings) and no documentation at all.
I found http://www.voicerss.org/
It works good for me, it's free, simple API and has the Brazilian pt-BR voice we need.
I actually spoke to iSpeech ( http://www.ispeech.org ) the other day, and apparently you can purchase credits directly from the web site (did you click Upgrade?). The reference to having to contact them is regarding higher volume pricing. (I haven't actually upgraded, so I haven't verified this, but that's what they said.)
Alternatives include:
http://ws.neospeech.com
http://acapela-group.com (or http://acapela-box.com)
http://acapela-vaas.com (VaaS means Voice as a Service, and this is a pure web API)
http://www.ivona.com/en/developer/
http://www.voiceforge.com/
https://speechtronic.com
Except for Neospeech, which has a free plan, the others are over my budget... Also, I'm disappointed that Neospeech's API is asynchronous. The API returns a code, whose status you then look up, until you get a url for the result. So it sounds like it's geared towards large amounts of text at a time.