Beginning Google Maps Applications

Our editor, Jason Gilmore, has written two excellent articles (1 and 2) about using perl’s Geo::Coder::US module to build a home-grown geocoder. It uses the TIGER/Line data and the code behind the Geocoder.us service to build something very quickly and robustly.
These articles inspired Chapter 11 of our new book, so they get a BIG thank […]

This is just a quick post to warn everyone that Google’s geocoder has a strict rate-limiting “feature”. You can do up to 50,000 lookups per day as we reported earlier, but that number can only be achieved if you request one geocode every 1.75 seconds consistently throughout the day. Exceeding this threshold for more than […]

Yesterday Google announced that they were releasing a geocoding solution during their Geo Developer Day! We’re as excited as you are and we’re going to scramble to include as much information as possible about it in the book before it goes to print in a month and a half. For everything we miss or that […]