On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wasn't it Barry Hunter who wrote: >>On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM, tunerGeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> It's also far better for Google resources as well as for your page's >>> performance to geocode once at the same time that you insert the >>> address to the database. Save the latlng. Geocoding is throttled such >>> that you can only do one geocode every 1.7-something seconds. >> >>That limit is old. The limit is now 15,000 request per IP per 24 >>hours. You can spread that evenly - in which case its 5.76seconds. Or >>you can go quicker than that - the best advice is go at your own >>speed, but watch for getting flagged as going too quick in which, >>should add a pause, and then try again. > > But as well as the 15,000 per 24 hours limit, there's also a per-second > rate limit:
Yep. But its not fixed nor documented, so you shouldnt/couldnt use a fixed throttle on it (even that may be too quick), but rather a progressive retry. Google dont punish you for getting a error message, so can just use it as a sign you are going two quick - at the moment - so slow down and try again. You can possibly pickup speed later. As just demonstrated by Esa you can get a much higher qps rate than would be allowed by the qpd rate. > > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/msg/964d5f740add70a9 > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/msg/5df853c2ae0c7d1b > > -- > http://econym.org.uk/gmap > The Blackpool Community Church Javascript Team > > > > > -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
