Is there a way to geocode multiple addresses per request, by passing in an array or something? If not, then it is impossible to reach the 15000 limit, so you might want to remove the 15000 limit from the docs because it will just confuse people. Thanks, Scott
On Mar 30, 12:22 am, "Thor (Google Employee)" <[email protected]> wrote: > The daily limit on the Geocoder Web Service that you are using is > 2,500 per day, as stated in the launch blog post: > > http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/03/introducing-new-googl... > > It looks like this is not in the docs though so I will get it added. > > Many thanks, > > Thor. > > On Mar 30, 3:48 am, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I am trying to put together a site that will use the v3 api. Most of > > my requests will be through javascript and cached on the server, but > > right now I need to seed the existing addresses in my database with > > coordinates. I have a ruby script that works great for a while, but > > eventually gets the over_query_limit error. > > > url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml? > > address=#{CGI::escape(address)}&sensor=false" > > > I do one request to the above url per address, then store the results > > in my database. The API states a limit of 15,000 requests per day, so > > I set a sleep of 5.8 seconds between requests (14900/day). The script > > runs for maybe two thousand requests then it starts receiving the > > over_query_limit error for all the remaining requests. I even waited a > > couple days before I ran this script again to make sure there were no > > other requests from this IP address to the api in the past 24 hours. > > > How accurate is the 15000 limit? Do I need to sleep more than 5.8 > > seconds between requests? Is there a more reliable way to do this? > > > thanks, > > scott -- 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.
