Thanks for your input guys.
On Sep 8, 10:26 pm, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wasn't it maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru] who wrote:
>
>
>
> >Mike,
>
> >Do you know what the actual limit is and where this is discussed? I
> >remember hearing about it but don't remember reading about it.
>
> The actual limit is not specified. Perhaps they want to be able to
> adjust it if the servers get overloaded. Or perhaps they didn't want
> hundreds of users coding their pages to issue requests at exactly the
> legal rate, which might possibly cause them all to get entrained and
> cause weird unbalanced loading of the servers.
>
> Knowing it wouldn't help you much anyway, because the situation is
> affected by the variations in Internet packet transmission speed. If you
> wrote code that issued GDirections requests at exactly the legal rate,
> the variations in Internet latency causes the rate of requests arriving
> at the server to vary enough to push you over the limit.
>
> The announcement that GDirections was given a per-second rate limit is
> here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/msg/654432198f9d891d
>
> --http://econym.googlepages.com/index.htm
> The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team
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