We’ve talked about printing issues before, now it appears that we have found a fix that should work for enabling printing in all browsers. I am hopeful that this will solve problems once and for all, but please try for yourself and post your results here.
Category: mapping
Google requests disabling of geocoding output
Google has officially requested that we disable some elements of our site that allow users to extract geocoded coordinates in bulk. It is in violation of their Terms of Service agreement. Many of the rules in the TOS are requirements of third party data providers that do not like their data being accessible outside of whichever system they have licensed it to.
I find this an unfortunate turn of events, but from our stats I recognize the majority of users do not use the geocoding export feature but rather keep their data hosted on BatchGeo by saving their map. We will of course continue to offer free map hosting to all interested, and look forward to rolling out more features all of the time to keep our users happy.
BatchGeo is still the quickest way to make a map!
Public maps made using BatchGeo
Hundreds of maps are created everyday using BatchGeo, not all of those maps make it to the public because of our map security system.
However for those of you who have linked your map from your own public site, its easy to find these maps as they get indexed by Google:
http://www.google.com/#q=site%3Awww.batchgeo.com%2Fmap
As you can see there are thousands of maps available from all over the world on all sorts of things. We’re proud to have created such an easy system to use that so many maps are created daily.
Here’s another fun search that will show you a lot of Twitter users are happy with BatchGeo:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=batchgeo
Unfortunately Twitter clears tweets that are over 30 days old. For a complete index of Tweets about BatchGeo, we can use Google:
http://www.google.com/#q=site%3Atwitter.com+batchgeo
Overall its great to see how many maps and happy users we have out there, as always keep posting here if you can think of ways we can continue to improve our service.
