Dive site tags [was: IMPORTANT information about current master: dive site management]

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 09:01:27PM +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 15 February 2015 at 20:36, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> > There are three major providers of these reverse lookup services.
> > Google has a very low max usage count per IP address per day unless you
> > pay. So for a prolific diver (or someone who tests this a couple of times)
> > it would be very easy to run into that limit. Bing has a more reasonable
> > limit (I think 30k requests a day) so that would be an alternative.
> > Openstreenmap through MapQuest doesn't appear to have a firm limit, that's
> > why I picked them, but it's possible that the quality of their data isn't
> > as good.
> >
> 
> just tried this @ openstreetmap via HTTP:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
> (under Reverse Geocoding)
> 
> but they state that a limit is imposed "No heavy uses (an absolute
> maximum of 1 request/s)".
> 
> on that same wiki page they say that this as an alternative has no
> bandwidth limit:
> http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/

That's the one we use :-)

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