On 02/09/2009, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 2, 12:29 pm, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not my decision of course, but it's a bit demanding on a resource > > shared with others to put more than 50 maps on a page to begin with. > > It may help if you can justify the need. > > > I would agree with that; but these limits should be explicitly stated > in the documentation, and they're not. > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/#Limits > > Mind you, a couple of refreshes by the developer and the images should > be cached for everyone, shouldn't they?
Almost, but not quite. Google maps is run from multiple data centers. Caching will almost certainly happen at a data-center level. Developers and users might easily go to different data-centers. This is probably the reason for the 'in general' in the documention > > > Andrew > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
