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).
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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.
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 12.233.209.66.
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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