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!

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.