It's poor style/poor technique to repeatedly geocode the same addresses over and over. It's simply wasteful of resources, regardless of their vastness.
Paul On Nov 1, 9:29 am, "Barry Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
