Can you embed an <iframe>? If yes, then you can serve your maps on a separate application, independent of "facebook". If not, I'd suggest you get rid of "facebook" :-)
-- Marcelo - http://maps.forum.nu -- On Oct 18, 8:39 pm, matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running a Facebook application that requests static maps for each > of its users. Each map is a different map, so it will request at least > 1000 per day. The problem is Facebook decides to server-side cache all > of its images, which means even though I pass 'maps.google.com/ > staticmap...' as the <img> URL, Facebook is in fact the one requesting > the images, not the client. So it'll look like 1000 requests from the > same user, and get blocked very easily. > > I considered caching the images myself, and only when the map data has > changed, so in that case it would be fetching the data significantly > less. But with enough users, that would easily reach the limit too > (and may be against the TOU?). > > What should I do? I can't think of any feasible way to get the client > to request the image, because I'm sandboxed by Facebook... > > PS: You can't embed arbitrary JavaScript either, so Google Dynamic > Maps are out. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
