Can we get an official statement of rates, feeds and speeds? With prices if applicable.
>From the documentation here and there, it appears that 15,000 request per day is a limit. This works out to just under 6 seconds per request. In my testing, I can send in a small number of requests back to back, and get nice answers. Then I start getting some 620 responses, and later 403 HTTP errors. I fully understand that Google has costs with providing the service, and if my idea becomes popular and I'm making money off it, I'll happily pay for a license that lets me exceed the 'free' level. But I'm having trouble with what seems to be a non-deterministic response to my requests. So if you tell me what the rules are, I'll write code to comply. Since I have your attention, can I make a suggestion: Have three levels of service, (1) free low volume (2) standard (some commercial volume) with higher limits and (3) premium with more fee and more service. Within them, I'd love to see a time function that is exponentially smoothed. Specifically, rather than a hard limit of 6 seconds per request, I'd love to see that the first 20 requests in a "while" are answered immediately. And if I have more, say 50 requests, they have to be spaced at two seconds each. With still more, go up to six or even ten seconds per request. Just queue them, don't send me a 403. Or send me a 620 with a hint that at current loads, a nice delay would be 3 seconds per request. I'd be happy with the exponential response in each of the three levels of service. For me, the beauty of an exponential response time curve is that i can geocode a few requests nearly instantly, and still all Google to spread the load, do load management, etc. Thanks Pat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" 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-js-api-v3?hl=en.
