Housekeeping lis part and parcel of messing around with ideas on the web. Code evolves, apis change, technologies mature or disappear and so a code base can, if you’re not careful become a bit of a headache. At least that’s where my afternoon has taken me.

Productive mind, fixed lots of slow laggy buggy code which until recently, didn’t matter so much. However with Google and their latest judgments, you have to clean it all up or bin it, else you’ll see rankings go backwards and who needs that!

And match subsequent requests.

This is especially useful for legacy urls which need redirecting permanently. If you’ve a few 100 thousand of those and your previous api provider has hiked all the prices, then being able to save cash like this on big numbers is crucial.

Bots are legion and even with cloudflares excellent asn and bot blocking tech, a few will get through and cost you a packet.

So caching those longlats is a sensible win