With 1 million addresses I think it would be a good idea to investigate non-Google bulk geocoding services. There are cheap ones for USA addresses, because the Tiger database is freely available. Finding good cheap fast bulk geocoding services for other countries may not be so easy.
There's a few links here: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-non-google-g eocoders You may well consider it worthwhile to pay a modest fee in order to avoid the 67 days of processing that it would take to geocode 1 million addresses at the rate of 15,000 per day that you get with the Google geocoder. Perhaps you could use third party bulk geocoders for the countries with the most locations, and use the Google geocoder for those that are left over. >I believe the Google user agreement says >something like we're not supposed to store the coordinates returned >from the Google geocoder in a database... The precise wording is: "You may use the Maps API geocoder solely to obtain and display points on map images provided through the Service." The Google technical guys would certainly prefer us to store geocoded locations in a database rather than re-geocoding them on the fly each time someone opens the page. The Google legal guys presumably don't want us to set up our own geocoding services, selling on the Google data. -- http://econym.org.uk/gmap The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
