What are some possible geocoders that would be acceptable for use in laconica?
Yahoo!'s has a 5,000 request/IP/day limit. It also has a TOS which I doubt will work for laconica http://info.yahoo.com/guidelines/us/yahoo/ydn/ydn-3955.html For example, it can't be used on sites that store geocoding results (which obviously is important here) Google's has a 15,000 request/IP/day limit. Their TOS is also a concern. For example, "10.6 use the Service in a manner that gives you or any other person access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of any Content, including but not limited to numerical latitude or longitude coordinates, imagery, and visible map data" which rules out allowing data exports, as I would expect under the site's eventual full compliance with the Franklin Street Statement. There are other points of concern too... it requires a good read through. Geocoder.us may be an option, but with a bit of additional complication. The web service as their site disallows commercial use. However, the application is available under GPLv2, and the data is from the US government under the public domain. However, this won't help non-US users. Open Street Maps uses a combination of services, such as geocoder.us, geocoder.ca, geonames.org, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Search#Geonames . But, perhaps we could just use their Name Finder... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Name_finder I don't think it's as good, but it seems to be the most Free and closest to what is desired. Thoughts? ~Craig _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
