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Old 12-29-2009, 12:56 PM   #11 (permalink)
edpark
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Default I think they're throttling.

I've been having the same problem-- works in the morning, stops working at night.

Here's my theory. We know that Google throttles reverse-geocoding requests by IP. My suspicion is that this throttling is reset at midnight each night and that MKReverseGeocoder passes its requests through a centralized caching proxy; since that proxy would appear as a single IP to Google, it stops working at a certain point during the day.

In any case, I ripped MKReverseGeocoder out of my app and rolled my own custom class using Google's new REST API (Geocoding - Google Maps API Services - Google Code) , and the app has been working great.

Hope this helps. The other thing someone could do is to try complaining to Apple and/or Google and get them to fix this, but rolling my own was easy enough and I didn't want to wade through the support bureaucracy.
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