Oh, one other interesting thing I found about Google's geo-coder - if you run the geo-coding job from App Engine, there doesn't seem to be a limit on how many geo-codes you can do per day, despite the stated cap.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > For a while, I was geo-coding every address on CraigsList housing ads for a > map mash-up. > > I tested all the geocoders included in Geo.py: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2006-October/005297.html. > This includes geocoder.us. > > I found that the only one that did the job even remotely reliably was > Google, followed by Yahoo. Geocoder.us didn't seem to code very many > addresses at all. > > The addresses people list on CraigsList on often very vague, so maybe this > isn't a good test of the geo-coders, but I found Google was the only really > good one. I guess there's some chance I wasn't using the others properly as > well. > > Andrew > Co-founder, TrailBehind.com > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Andrew Turner < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Christopher Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:36:47PM -0400, Sean Gorman wrote: >> >> >> Hi Fernando - >> >> The geocoder we just open sourced has address parsing in it that could do >> the job: >> http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder/tree/master >> >> Which may well be similar to: >> >> http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-StreetAddress-US-0.99/US.pm >> <http://search.cpan.org/%7Esderle/Geo-StreetAddress-US-0.99/US.pm> >> >> (Which is the code from geocoder.us.) >> >> >> >> bigger, better, faster, and now with more peanut butter (as the glue). >> >> The goal is to extend parsers, and data importers for various countries' >> addressing schemes and data sources (esp. OpenStreetMap). >> >> Andrew >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> >> >
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