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Hmm, I would think thrice, before I go his path again. Thought it was a clever idea to use the mixture of easy to maintain spreadsheets, the cron service and JSON to feed huge satellite images into a tiling service (zoom.it) and let Google autonomously update and serve the list of daily mosaics as JSON.

I got used to daily time out messages, but waiting 1 min for a (cached!) 10 kb JSON list is far too much. However, organizing and correcting data using an online spreadsheet saves a lot of time and is kinda fun.




I always stick a caching proxy in front of it rather than using it directly. ( Mine is actually public but doesn't come with an SLA)...


Yes, I ended up using App Engine's memcache on top, much faster.




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