On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:02 PM, davie strachan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> Misuse was probably the wrong word
> What I meant was geocoding is limited to 2,500 geolocations a
> day

... per IP address. Its the clients computer that contacts the server
- so each visitor gets that many requests.

(Its not a perfect mapping, because many users can share IPs -
Proxies/NATs etc. But its still a generous quota per user. )

> As we can see in other posts Google are starting to charge if map
> transaction excede the limit.

That's a completely different limit they are charging for. (map
loading transations, rather than geocoding)

> To future proof we should be searching or own databases first then
> only using Google to geocode the remainder.

Well I agree, using a in house system can give you more control.

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