On 1 June 2010 15:59, ELB <[email protected]> wrote: > ok, so you are saying that Google caches the maps internally and it > won't count against our rate limit no matter how many people > simultaneously request the *same* map. > > so, if we had 35 users visit a page on our site requesting the same > map over a 1 minute period - we wouldn't run into a rate limiting > issue?
That's my understanding of it. The requests come from different places (same referer, different IP address). See http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/ -- >> Use of the Google Static Maps API is subject to a query limit of 1000 unique (different) image requests per viewer per day. Since this restriction is a quota per **viewer**, most developers should not need to worry about exceeding their quota. Additionally, note that requests of identical images, in general, do not count towards this limit beyond the original request. << The "in general" in the last sentence covers the case where one user requests the same image as another, but before the earlier request has been satisfied and the image generated. In that case, it's likely that two identical images will be generated and counted -- but that's only 1 image out of a quota of 1000, and only for one client. Andrew -- Andrew C Leach -- 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.
