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Genuine question: What does this offer that http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ doesn't? Today I use the MapQuest API
by buro9 10y ago
Genuine question: What does this offer that http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ doesn't?
Today I use the MapQuest API, and it's been stable and fine for the 2+ years I've used it, and the search has always been very good, intuitively selecting the right entity... i.e. London, UK rather than London, OT, and finding the right lat:lon for pubs and not getting confused by other places with similar names.
- tomglynch 10y agoThe home page looks more swank.
- lazyjones 10y agoAt a quick first glance: MapQuest has 15K transactions/month for free, LocationIQ claims 30K/day currently.
- maxerickson 10y agoVariety is a good thing. Make sure to pay close attention. MapQuest recently announced that they are going to discontinue their direct access OSM tile offering: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-June/076106.html https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-June/076... This is part of a ongoing reorganization of their offerings, it wouldn't be surprising if they flipped the switch on their other open data stuff.
- nachtigall 10y agoJeez, I had no idea that MapQuest will kill their free access. Thanks so much for sharing.
- gopi_ar 10y agoThis is actually why we had to setup our own servers in the first place!
- buro9 10y agoWould you consider adjustments so that subjectively the most important place is returned? i.e. the London example I gave.
- buro9 10y agoCool, that's the missing bit of info I needed.