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FWIW, I'd found https://www.geocod.io/ to be a good service a couple years back. They sponsored some conferences I went to, and I needed some geocoding->timezone info. IIRC, at the time, it was $5/month which covered everything we needed. Dunno if that's eye-watering or not.

Seems to have changed pricing a bit since. The 'pay as you go' model now has 2500 API calls/day for free, and $1/2000 API calls after that. My needs never grew in to needing much more than what we hit for that $5/month, so I can't vouch for their service at a large scale, but I enjoyed using it.

No affiliation just a happy former customer.

>>lowerc+(OP)
Well the model that I would use, would be about 20,000 or so lookups, every 4 hours.

Might add up.

>>ChrisM+H
well... yes, at that rate, it could. :)

thanks for sharing your tool!

>>lowerc+(OP)
Co-Founder of Geocodio here — glad we were able to help with your geocoding+timezone needs!

(And glad to hear that conference sponsorships work. A lot of smaller conferences are struggling to find sponsors these days, so if anyone reading is in a position to sponsor, the organizer of your favorite conference would probably appreciate it!)

>>mjwhan+Wq1
Thanks for being a sponsor at PHP[Tek] this year. Your stickers are out on a table next to our booth and I've been periodically telling people what you guys do as they walk by.

>>mjwhan+Wq1
You're welcome. Thanks for the sponsorships! They DO work, but I imagine sometimes hard to quantify. I know I've been able to recommend geocodio first hand to folks in my user groups who a) hadn't heard of it and b) wouldn't have been able to attend conferences.

FWIW, first time I saw you was at LonghornPHP in Austin. 2021, IIRC.

>>lowerc+AIf
That's really good to hear, thanks!

The organizer of Longhorn PHP is a friend of ours (Daniel Abernathy), and we have a somewhat official-unofficial rule that we always sponsor our friends' conferences :)