I am using the geocoder gem for working with geolocation data. Now, I have a list of 20k addresses and I to find for them their latitude and longitude coordinations. I am using for this Bing Maps, which allows to send 125k requests per day. So that's good.
But there's a problem - because when I send quickly a few requests through geocoder to decode some addresses, instead of returning the addresses it returns an empty array (nothing).
I think it's because of sending too many requests within a very short period of time. So I was thinking about putting there a delay between making those calls to geocoder, like:
sleep 3 # pause for 3 seconds
This is just a thought - how big should be the pause between the calls of geocoder? Or is there any better way to process 20k of data with using geocoder?
Thank you
Unless this is for a Windows app the limit is 125,000 a year. Windows apps can do 50,000 a day. Note that non-enterprise accounts are rate limited. When you make too many requests in a short period of time an empty response will be returned and a flag in the header will indicate that the request was rate limited. This is documented here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701703.aspx