[Geocoding] Thanks to nominatim sysadmin [Re: Apologies for over-use; Any other corrections to take?
Howard.Abbey at awtcus.com
Howard.Abbey at awtcus.com
Thu Jun 19 03:49:16 UTC 2014
Hello again,
I wanted to give a public thanks to Sarah H., the sysadmin of
nominatim.osm.org, for the extra information and help.
Regards,
Howard
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From: Howard Abbey/AWTC
To: geocoding at openstreetmap.org,
Date: 06/18/2014 11:12 AM
Subject: Apologies for over-use; Any other corrections to take?
Hello,
If this should be directed to another mailing list and/or person, please
let me know.
Thanks much, apologies, and thanks in advance.
Thank you much for Nominatim, and for allowing it to be used beyond just
powering openstreetmap.org
Apologies that an app under development inappropriately overused the
Nominatim interface.
I am sorry we did not notice this sooner.
We will switch to another server. Is there any other step to take?
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).
[Details]
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.
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.)
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.
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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.
We are in process of switching to the Mapquest API.
The motivation in large part behind this e-mail is to avoid a complete IP
ban. Our corporate web gateway IP is ...
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.
Thanks again to twain and all who keep Nominatim, and all of OSM, working.
Regards,
Howard
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AW Technical Center U.S.A., Inc.
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