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PeteSearch: Why is open geocoding important?

petewarden.typepad.com on 02/01/2013

Excerpt: A few years ago I had what I thought was a simple problem. I had a bunch of place names, and I needed to turn them into latitude and longitude coordinates. To my surprise, it turned out to be extremely hard. Google has an excellent geocoder, but you're only allowed to use it for data you're displaying on Google maps, and there are rate limits and charges if you use it in bulk. Yahoo has an excellent array of geo APIs with much better conditions, but there are still rate limits and their future was in doubt even then! So, I ended up hacking up my own very basic solution based on open data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, open geocoding