Ordinary map interaction like dragging and zooming does not use geocoding.

Converting back and forth between pixel positions and latitude/longitude
does not use geocoding.

Geocoding only comes into play when you:

1) Convert a place name or address into a latitude/longitude, or

2) Convert a latitude/longitude into a list of nearby addresses or places
(reverse geocoding).

When you use the client geocoder (either through the Maps API or with a
direct HTTP request from JavaScript), the quota applies to the *client's* IP
address, not your server's IP address.

If you have lat/longs in a database and use them to position your map or put
markers on it, you are not using geocoding at all. Of course you may use the
geocoder in a script on your server or a development machine to initially
populate the database or update it.

In most cases, this is the only time you have to worry about geocoding quota
- when you are making repeated automated requests from the same machine.
Then you need to put a delay between requests to make sure you don't exceed
the quota.

You could also have a problem if a large number of visitors were on NAT
behind a shared IP address and used the geocoder heavily. Then that entire
NAT network could be blocked - but it wouldn't affect anyone on other
networks. I think it's fairly unusual for this to be a problem, though.

-Mike

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:14 AM, ivan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, I am a web programmer. I want to develop a site with integrated
> google map.
> I have read that there is a limit on the number of geocoding requests
> for day. I have three questions:
> 1) I want to know if every time i drag the map, it generates a new
> geocoding request?
> 2) if I have a database with latitude and longitude of my points, I
> can see these points on the map without making other geocoding
> request?
> 3) I read that I can make 15000 georequest for ip, I want to know, who
> visits my site and make the geocoding request, exploit my 15000th
> geocoding request?
> do not use their IP address?
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