Category: mapping

New Feature: Change Group By on the Fly

You can now change the map rendering on the fly by switching the group by column. The feature is accessible by hovering over the legend label.

View Map of Top 100 Websites Worldwide in a full screen map

This will be quite useful for users who have a number of columns that could be used for map rendering. It really helps when doing geographical analysis work.

Web Developer Jobs at BatchGeo

BatchGeo, the worlds fastest mapping tool, is looking for web developers. Preferably full stack developers who have a keen eye for design. Strong JavaScript, and at least one server side language a must.

We’re located near Portland, Oregon, a terrific place to live and work, but you don’t need to be here, we think working remote is great too.

Show us your apps, sites, code, UI, designs, github account, etc. If you like to hack, we’d love to hear from you.

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Google changes geocoding quotas

In the last couple of months Google has made changes to the Google Maps API that will effect users of the free version of BatchGeo. Google has previously allowed for up to 2500 geocodes from a single user in a day. It now appears that after 200 geocodes in a row they severely delay subsequent geocodes.

Previously this was just seen in beta version of the API, but starting 3/19/13 this change is being forced in production.

Unfortunately its not clear at this time if this is a bug or an actual change to the quotas. We have logged the issue with Google and will hopefully hear back an answer on it soon.

This does not effect your ability to create maps using BatchGeo Pro (which uses a licensed version of the Google Maps API with different quotas), nor does it effect maps with less than 200 markers. You can create larger than 200 marker maps but it will take a long, long time. Sorry for the inconvenience but it is a situation out of our control.

UPDATE: As a result of these changes from Google we have reduced the number of markers supported in our free version to 250.