Thanks to everybody for all the ideas. I will look into them and see which one better fits my current needs. Thanks!
Fernando On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Charles Dingman <[email protected]>wrote: > Another possibility: > https://webgis.usc.edu/Default.aspx > > Charles Dingman > Greenbelt, MD 20770 > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Sean Gorman > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Yeah this causes all sorts of weirdness although my understanding is the >> legal terms flow from the street providers i.e. Teleatlas and Navteq. For >> instance when talking to Navteq about POI data we could not show it on >> Google maps because they use Teleatlas. Hence Yahoo using OSM and Google's >> MapMaker ???? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> On Jul 16, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Christopher Schmidt <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:16:50AM +1000, pamela fox wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> The same is true of Yahoo! Geocodes and Yahoo! maps, afaik. (I guess >>> this means that it's a violation of the terms of use to do anything >>> other than compare them visually, since looking at the numbers wouldn't >>> be 'using them with a google map'...) >>> >>> -- Chris >>> >>> 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>< >>>>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Geowanking mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Christopher Schmidt >>> MetaCarta >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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