I had request from one client to create Google Map on one website, with database of almost 200 000 locations. Depending on filter criteria, it should be possible to show up to 800 locations on the map(this limitation is due to Google API). Locations haven’t contained geo codes(coordinates).
It would be possible to use Google API using address, but their geo coding service is so fast, and imagine how...
I worked on one project with many different reports that had to be created. And in addition to html reports, client wanted to have pdf options, so his customers could download pdf version of report.
PHP build-in libraries for PDF creation, haven’t satisfy our needs, because we had much tabular data, and many different tables, so it would take too much time to setup all these width/heights with block...