Legalities aside, another thing my own replication of this experiment revealed was that the transactions for several rows returned a status code 620, which indicates that the spreadsheet is submitting multiple transactions too rapidly to the maps.google.com server.
In my 50-row spreadsheet, there were 10 such errors returned. On Nov 1, 6:02 pm, boomerbubba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I now have tried it, and again I congratulate you on this > discovery. > > What the experiment reveals to me is that the software limit in > question applies generally to the Import() function within Google Docs > spreadsheets. The error message that occurs if the user tries to > build a bigger spreadsheet is: > > "At this time, spreadsheets in Google Docs only support up to 50 > ImportData functions in a single spreadsheet." > > So this sofware limit really does not apply to geocoding per se, but > rather to a more general function within a single instance of the > spreadsheet app, and would apply even if something else were being > imported having nothing to do with geocoding. > > Therefore, my original question and observations still apply. I do > wonder how this fits in with the Terms and Conditions of Google Maps. > I am posing the question, not giving an answer. To be useful to most > of us, a technique must be both feasible and legal. > > (BTW, is "Bill Gates" supposed to be an insult or a compliment? I'll > just assume the latter.) > > On Nov 1, 4:37 pm, Esa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > First I thought that you tried the technique. Now I can see see that > > you never did but you are just worried about something that I don't > > get. > > > Mr Bill Gates. Try it, they tell you when you try to exceed the > > limits. You don't have to read any documentation. Do you really > > believe that people read your documentation?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
