Geocoder
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Topic: Geocoder
Posted By: Amateur
Subject: Geocoder
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 3:15pm
| Anyone know of any good geocoders out there, open source, suppied via web service etc?? Using the geocoder that google maps have at present and it isnt great, ok US addresses but thats not much good for me! |
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Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 3:18pm
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Double clicking the location in Google maps and then hitting the 'link to this page' link and copying the url from the address bar. is the way i do it. The last bunch of numbers in the URL are the locations code. Anyother ways i found of doing this cost alot, or were US only services, i'm based in the UK so tthis was pretty useless. Try looking through the Yahoo maps API documentation as i think there is a tool available there. ------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 4:58pm
| I was able to make the Yahoo API work great!! Was able to get the zip+4 and longlat from a street address... took a little work but worked okay. I wrote a script for 5000 (max for api) and was able to capture a load of information as well as validate the address spelling. |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 5:07pm
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I must have a go off the Yahoo API, any helpful links lads? Used to google maps, have it all set up bar the geocoder. Using it for property addresses in Ireland so hope I will find it as helpful. |
Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 5:12pm
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Before going to too much trouble, use the samples in the api area to see if they even have Irish addresses... I didn't even think of that. Sorry. |
Posted By: dfrancis
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 5:14pm
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This is a great tool that uses AJAX and the Yahoo API.
http://www.batchgeocode.com/ - http://www.batchgeocode.com/
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Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 7:15pm
Thanks everyone, tried yahoo api but its not great fot Ireland, have come across http://www.geodirectory.ie/ but it costs!
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Posted By: Mikey
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 7:22pm
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Thats the problem i found, everything for UK / Europe costs and usualy they don't come cheap either.
------------- Handyman man? |
Posted By: Amateur
Date Posted: 16 September 2006 at 8:58pm
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Looks like i'll just have to pay up or shut up! |
Posted By: testingthis
Date Posted: 21 October 2006 at 5:23pm
| has anyone had any progress with this? I have added the Address, City, and State fields to my forums registration but I can't seem to geocode them automatically. Any help on this would be great! |