Comments on: Google Maps Route Tools http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/google-maps-route-tools/ A design blog with a particular emphasis on green design, design for society, and environmental technologies, Vestal Design Blog also discusses web design, product design, graphic design, and architecture. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:25:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: links for 2007-05-02 // daily contributions http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/google-maps-route-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-46065 links for 2007-05-02 // daily contributions Fri, 04 May 2007 01:41:36 +0000 http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/google-maps-route-tools.html#comment-46065 [...] Google Maps Route Tools » Vestal Design Blog [...] [...] Google Maps Route Tools » Vestal Design Blog [...]

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]]> By: Jeffrey Warren http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/google-maps-route-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-38943 Jeffrey Warren Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:03:43 +0000 http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/google-maps-route-tools.html#comment-38943 Thanks for the tip, Jess, those are interesting - but we're faced with thousands of points at a time, and need a ceiling of maybe 10-20k points per day, working from addresses. Also, we really need an API or some kind of remote request service, like Yahoo's. Yahoo limits at 5k per day, and we ran through that pretty fast. I think we'll figure it out but for now we're probably going to stick to being really conservative about how many requests we let through. I wish there were a reliable address-based service we could just buy, maybe per request, or buy 10k per day or so. In any case there soon will be, this is a huge market and more and more web services will be using datapoints. Yahoo or Google could probably make a killing by offering a geocoding library with some nice functions like distance_between_points() and others. I ended up writing them myself. Thanks for the tip, Jess, those are interesting – but we’re faced with thousands of points at a time, and need a ceiling of maybe 10-20k points per day, working from addresses. Also, we really need an API or some kind of remote request service, like Yahoo’s. Yahoo limits at 5k per day, and we ran through that pretty fast. I think we’ll figure it out but for now we’re probably going to stick to being really conservative about how many requests we let through. I wish there were a reliable address-based service we could just buy, maybe per request, or buy 10k per day or so.

In any case there soon will be, this is a huge market and more and more web services will be using datapoints. Yahoo or Google could probably make a killing by offering a geocoding library with some nice functions like distance_between_points() and others. I ended up writing them myself.

]]> By: Jessica Pfund http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/google-maps-route-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-38411 Jessica Pfund Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:44:47 +0000 http://www.vestaldesign.com/blog/2007/04/google-maps-route-tools.html#comment-38411 Here's <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-non-google-geocoders" rel="nofollow">a big list</a> of geocoders and reverse-geocoders. Note that <a href="http://earth.google.com/earth_plus.html" rel="nofollow">Google Earth Plus</a> ($20/year) also lets you geocode up to a 100 points at a time based on address while <a href="http://earth.google.com/earth_pro.html" rel="nofollow">Google Earth Pro</a> ($400/year) lets you geocode up to 2500 at a time (among a lot of other neat features.) Here’s a big list of geocoders and reverse-geocoders.

Note that Google Earth Plus ($20/year) also lets you geocode up to a 100 points at a time based on address while Google Earth Pro ($400/year) lets you geocode up to 2500 at a time (among a lot of other neat features.)

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