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by ffumarola 5562 days ago
What about the import caused the site to crash?

Is it a repeatable problem?

1 comments

It's probably related to Google Maps and their geo-code limitations. You can only query about 2500 in a 24hr period, and even then you can't do bursts without being blocked for a 24hr period. What you should do is query in intervals, store the resulting geo-code information in your database, then use that information rather constantly query Google's geo-coding services.

I'm not privy to any information, but this is likely what happens as we had to advise some of our users that were having a similar issue with Google Maps.

Good info, thanks for the thorough response.