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Google Maps API now with Geocoding
I don’t know how I missed it, but it seems the Google Maps API team added geocoding to the API on June 13th. You can access the geocode servers directly via HTTP request, or with JavaScript in the browser. Geocode requests are limited to 50,000 requests per day per API key, so you may want to cache results for future use if you Google Maps-enabled site gets fairly decent traffic. You can read the announcement here and see some Geocoder examples from the documentation here.
Now I could update the SiteMapper if I felt like it. One of these days I need to find a better use for that site. It was originally going to be a site to find free wifi hotspots, but then I found that plenty of other sites were already doing that. I also thought of a site to combine the many housing sites into one easy to use map, but there are a few out there. More and more I feel like Google, wanting to tackle a new problem that hasn’t been solved yet; wanting to do things differently.
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