I'm writing a server-side batch geocoder in Java. I'd like to limit the rate at which I make geocoder requests to http://maps.google.com/maps/geo. In my experience with client-side geocoding (specifically, Maps Javascript API v3) it was necessary to make sure I made requests no more frequently than every 200ms or so. However, when I do this in Java using a Java URL object (URL::openStream() after some initialization) it seems like HTTP request is self-rate-limited to about 160ms per request. Does the HTTP Geocoder service actually handle rate-limiting in this case (e.g. causing openStream() to block until sufficient time has passed)? Or, do I still need to rate-limit my requests, and at what rate?
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