Thanks Blob,
Once we are in full production, the intention is (was?) to move over to Premier, but as I said earlier it's not clear from the documentation if the IP based limit is still enforced, or if you are then based on a keyed 100,000 requests. Whilst I'd be surprised if WE ever hit the 100k limit (or even 10% of that), if the limit is still IP related, and we are on a shared infrastructure, then paying for it doesn't really help!!! For the time being, we have added Yahoo as a fall-back reverse geocoder (until we get this resolved, although now it's there it'll probably stay as a backup), who offer a key based service with 50K requests per day. I think what I find frustrating, is that their other Web Service products make use of (and actively promote/enforce) key based access, where Maps (for NO apparent reason) appear to be moving away from this philosophy ~ I can understand them wanting to take away the headache of the keys for every user that would want a map, but why not make it optional so that people who want to work within the T&C's, but not in a way that they would count as the 'norm' can still work without illogical limits (like IP addresses). A key is already (/can be) provided for client apps (via the jsloader), so whilst I appreciate the overhead of monitoring 'hits' via this key, the technology / functionality must already be in place at the google end to enforce the limits on their other products - surely for server based apps this should just be a case of an internal 'googletools.checkLimit(key)' call IF a key is passed with the request? On the other hand, *IF* signed requests for premier bypass this IP limit, why not let the smaller developer community have access to it- it'd help them find faults in this technology, wouldn't be used by all (or even most), and would make the transition from dev->live->paid for - seamless. There ARE other service providers out there, and the best way for Google to capture the largest market share is by not annoying the developer community by making use of their services difficult! Just my $0.02 worth ;-) Dave -- 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 google-maps-js-api...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
