On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 09:01:27PM +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > On 15 February 2015 at 20:36, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are three major providers of these reverse lookup services. > > Google has a very low max usage count per IP address per day unless you > > pay. So for a prolific diver (or someone who tests this a couple of times) > > it would be very easy to run into that limit. Bing has a more reasonable > > limit (I think 30k requests a day) so that would be an alternative. > > Openstreenmap through MapQuest doesn't appear to have a firm limit, that's > > why I picked them, but it's possible that the quality of their data isn't > > as good. > > > > just tried this @ openstreetmap via HTTP: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim > (under Reverse Geocoding) > > but they state that a limit is imposed "No heavy uses (an absolute > maximum of 1 request/s)". > > on that same wiki page they say that this as an alternative has no > bandwidth limit: > http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/
That's the one we use :-) /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
