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Autocomplete seems to have stopped working

Posted by iaminawe on October 7, 2011 at 7:25pm
Project:OpenLayers Geocoder
Version:6.x-2.x-dev
Component:Miscellaneous
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active

Issue Summary

Hi,

We have several sites that use the Openlayers Geocoder project and have found that for some reason, the autocomplete address lookup seems to have stopped working. Typing in the address lookup bar starts the loading spinner but no results are returned at all

All sites affected are using the 2.x-dev branch of openlayers and openlayers_geocoder and have been working fine for months now but almost simultaneously we are receiving complaints from various different clients that it no longer works.

Could anyone else confirm this issue? Has there possibly been an API change that may have caused this?

Thanks for any assistance
Gregg

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Comments

#1

Posted by iaminawe on October 19, 2011 at 6:37pm

Bumping this - can anyone else confirm that this has stopped working for them using the latest dev version?

#2

Posted by steinmb on November 3, 2011 at 12:27am

I'm personally still on 6.x-2.0-alpha5 so hard for me to tell but there have not been any changes to Geocoder it self in a long time http://drupal.org/node/638988/commits. You could do an quick test with alpha5 and see if that one is working for you.

#3

Posted by sailoog on November 4, 2011 at 3:46pm

From http://code.google.com/intl/ca/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/index.html

Usage Limits

Use of the Google Geocoding API is subject to a query limit of 2,500 geolocation requests per day. (User of Google Maps API Premier may perform up to 100,000 requests per day.) This limit is enforced to prevent abuse and/or repurposing of the Geocoding API, and this limit may be changed in the future without notice. Additionally, we enforce a request rate limit to prevent abuse of the service. If you exceed the 24-hour limit or otherwise abuse the service, the Geocoding API may stop working for you temporarily. If you continue to exceed this limit, your access to the Geocoding API may be blocked.

Note: the Geocoding API may only be used in conjunction with a Google map; geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited. For complete details on allowed usage, consult the Maps API Terms of Service License Restrictions.

Reading this article: http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2007/09/coming-soon-ip-based-geocode-l...

Maybe this is the problem. All the querys from your server are the same IP.

#4

Posted by iaminawe on November 5, 2011 at 3:59am

Thank you for the suggestions. I am looking around to see how to find out if an IP is blocked or not, I have also switched all the openlayers displays over to google maps and have setup to a google maps API key to comply with their requirements so will see if this can get the IP unblocked. Will share my progress.