ok, that makes sense. thank you Andrew and Rossko for your help with this - I appreciate it
On Jun 1, 11:11 am, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > > Seehttp://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.
