<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If this should be directed to another
mailing list and/or person, please let me know.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks much, apologies, and thanks in
advance.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thank you much for Nominatim, and for
allowing it to be used beyond just powering openstreetmap.org</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Apologies that an app under development
inappropriately overused the Nominatim interface.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am sorry we did not notice this sooner.
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We will switch to another server. Is
there any other step to take?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks in advance for all the work that
I look forward to seeing in the future. Hopefully our work will also
help advance OpenStreetMap in some way (such as wider acceptance).</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[Details]</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We made a prototype web application,
for mainly internal testing, and were doing geocoding via Nominatim for
interactive address searches in it. The volume was minimal for testing.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Then we implemented searches for another
source that did not have built in lat /long, and tied into the existing
address look-up module. (That source has no relationship with us,
but had an API that was available.)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We forgot that the 10 to 20 address
look-ups very quickly would violate the Nominatim usage terms of 1/ second,
and put more load on the community server than intended. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As is often the case, we did not notice
our error / misuse until something broke. The Nominatim usage for
searches from our corporate gateway IP became throttled after some relatively
heavy testing before a planned demo.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We are in process of switching to the
Mapquest API.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The motivation in large part behind
this e-mail is to avoid a complete IP ban. Our corporate web gateway
IP is 12.233.209.66.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Once we are switched to another server
the ban would not effect our prototype, but we are likely to do other spot
checks in the future with Nominatim directly.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks again to twain and all who keep
Nominatim, and all of OSM, working.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Regards,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Howard</font>
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<br><tt><font size=1>AW Technical Center U.S.A., Inc.</font></tt>