New Design Coming Soon

First, welcome to the blog

Before we get down to business, I just wanted to take a second to thank you for dropping by. The Tiny Geocoder service has been functional since May of 2008. After a great chat with and some convincing by the folks at my local NPR station, I decided to publicly release it in August of 2008. Since then it’s hit some pretty big press like Lifehacker and others. It’s been a great ride and I’ve had the fortunate(!) problem on multiple occasions where our servers got slammed with so many queries that it couldn’t handle it.

Unfortunately, that still happens every now and then even to this day because we need about $1000/mo to keep from hitting our limits. We don’t have that kind of money, so we do what we can with what we have.

In the meantime, I’m happy to have been helpful to so many services (see a few of them in the sidebar to the right). The app serves an average around 120k – 200k API hits per day and will probably continue doing so without a hitch.

New Design Coming Soon

Now that the service is almost 6 months old I’ve been prodded to make a modification to the design of the site. Well, not really a modification… more like an overhaul. Luckily this little site doesn’t have much code to it, so it’ll be pretty simple. But, I’m excited to get down to it and make it easier to use and understand.

The incentive behind the design is to get highlighted on Single Function. Whoever it is that runs that great little service over there had some great suggestions regarding a site redesign… I like suggestions, so I’m going to do it before we get listed on their site.

A note about this blog

I don’t really believe I’ll be updating this blog too often, but I do expect when I do it will be the place I will announce feature/service changes, known outages, and other Tiny Geocoder news. I’ll also probably add a few feature posts here and there about the apps and people who use Tiny Geocoder as well as geocoding in general.

As always, if you have any suggestions, I’m happy to listen and most likely implement. I enjoy providing the service and people have generally been super nice, so I’d love to hear more of what you’re looking for from a simple service like this. Speak up and you will be heard.

Thanks again… happy geocoding!