[Digikam-users] geolocalization broken?

[Gilles Caulier]

2008/7/29 Caspar Maessen <cmaessen at casco.demon.nl>:
> Op dinsdag 29 juli 2008, schreef Gilles Caulier:
>
>  > > Right now all access to google happen through a digiKam account, which
>  > > is limited to 10'000 accesses per day. I've already remarked that at
>  > > some nights there is no response from google anymore, probably
>  > > attributable to that limit. The more people use digiKam the earlier
>  > > this limit will be reached, we'll have to do something about it.
>
> That indeed looks like the explanation for what happened. Thanks for the
> clarification.
>
>  > > As an intermediate solution we could open more accounts and redirect
>  > > the php call by the hour (most users are European for now, so it could
>  > > be optimized for European daytime).
>  >
>  > The other solution is to use marble in this plugin. Of course the map
>  > are not the same quality...
>
> I would hate to see google go for something else.
>

I would not remove google stuf, but provide an option to use marble
instead if necesssary

Gilles Caulier