Using Maps Geocode API from Azure website without Business account?

Question

When you have a business account for the Google Maps Geocode API, you have to specify an extra parameter, "client", in every call:

  http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?latlng=...&sensor=false&client=....

This way, the API can identify the caller and use the corresponding quota limitations.

When you don't have a business account, the call is simply like this:
(ie. no "client" parameter)

  http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?latlng=...&sensor=false

So, the only way the API identifies the caller is by the IP Address.

I want to use the Geocode API in a free Azure Website and I don't have a business API account. This means that I will be calling the API from a shared IP that all other free websites in Azure are using. Apparently, the number of requests done by Azure Websites is always exceeded, because I'm getting:

  <status>OVER_QUERY_LIMIT</status>

(In the first try)

Question: Is there a way to tell the API "who I am" so that I get my free quota (the same quota that I'm getting when I call the URL from my personal computer with my personal IP)?

If not, do you know any solution to this problem?

Answer 1

Use an API Key

Or use the client side geocoder