Question

there is a limit of 2400 geocoding request for google service. even if each request is cached and not duplicated its possible to exceed this limit if the request is being made from a rails app.

short of purchasing the premium package(which i dont know the cost of), what else can one do?

thanks

Answer 1

I do all of my geocoding from the application servers using geokit. That allows me a backup of yahoo maps using their multigeocoder. That way – if one fails, the other succeeds. Geokit also provides an identical interface to the two services, so you only need to code to the one abstraction layer. The google limit is per server per day, so if you have multiple app servers you can spread out the load to increase your limit. Yahoo’s limits are 5000/server/day.

Hope this helps, good luck!