FYI - there is still a cap. It's not currently enforced the same way it would on a normal server, but it will be in the future. So you should still code with it in mind. Keep in mind also that Google geocodes can only be used in conjunction with a Google map, per the terms of use.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Andrew Johnson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >
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