Thomas Dalton wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
We (and they) are in a rock-and-a-hard-place situation. It's good that they're working from their own stashed copy instead of hitting us live, because I doubt our servers could handle their users' load.
Why can't we have the best of both worlds? They get the co-ordinates from the database dumps, but when a user clicks on the globe icon they get the live page. We should be able to handle the load if our servers are only hit when a user actually tries to read the page.
No, that's just what I doubt we could handle. We're on the edge of our capacity a lot, these days, I think, and while I don't know how many Google Earth users there are out there and how often they're going to be clicking on these new Wikipedia placemarks, it could be a *lot*.