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Kind of off topic, but can you recommend some services similar to simplegeo?

lpolovets 15y ago
Disclosure: I work at Factual. Factual provides an API for businesses in the US and around the world. In fact, SimpleGeo partnered with us for some of their data. Other alternatives you can consider are FourSquare, Google Places, etc. Each alternative has it's own pricing structure and terms and conditions. You can browse some of our POI data by going to http://www.factual.com/topic/places http://www.factual.com/topic/places
- rabc 15y ago
  Foursquare is good for a simple and fast list of places, but the data inside that is incomplete sometimes. This Factual is new to me and seems good, I will see it better later (big list of places for Brazil, exactly what I need sometimes).
rabc 15y ago
I don't know any other service like Simplegeo. MongoDB has some pretty good geo-aware methods worth looking.
gregsadetsky 15y ago
Urban Mapping - http://www.urbanmapping.com/ http://www.urbanmapping.com/ - for data [ http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog ] and custom map rendering [ http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence ].
dannyr 15y ago
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Places-API http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Plac...
clojurerocks 15y ago
I was just looking into the geolocation issue myself recently. Looked at simplegeo but decided against it. The question really is what is your app going to do. The difficulty really with geolocation these days isnt the lack of data points rather its figuring out the needs of your application and whether or not these services will fit into that. In reality even with these services location based apps are still a pain to develop.
jchrisa 15y ago
Couchbase now includes the GeoCouch R-tree indexer by default: http://blog.couchbase.com/new-release-geocouch-extension http://blog.couchbase.com/new-release-geocouch-extension This is the same indexer that is powering open gov't projects around the world: http://maxogden.com/#blog/diy-open-data-catalog http://maxogden.com/#blog/diy-open-data-catalog
simon_kun 15y ago
If you mean tech as opposed to their data offerings, you should take a look at CartoDB http://www.cartodb.com http://www.cartodb.com. All the power of PostGIS with a lot of the pain points rounded off.
chenli 15y ago
Disclaimer: I am the founder of Bimaple.com. Bimaple provides powerful location-based search services. Check omniplaces.com for a demonstration site that supports instant, error-tolerant search on more than 17 million business listings. Customers can build a search application easily using our product.

Disclosure: I work at Factual. Factual provides an API for businesses in the US and around the world. In fact, SimpleGeo partnered with us for some of their data. Other alternatives you can consider are FourSquare, Google Places, etc. Each alternative has it's own pricing structure and terms and conditions. You can browse some of our POI data by going to http://www.factual.com/topic/places http://www.factual.com/topic/places

rabc 15y ago
Foursquare is good for a simple and fast list of places, but the data inside that is incomplete sometimes. This Factual is new to me and seems good, I will see it better later (big list of places for Brazil, exactly what I need sometimes).

rabc 15y ago

I don't know any other service like Simplegeo. MongoDB has some pretty good geo-aware methods worth looking.

gregsadetsky 15y ago

Urban Mapping - http://www.urbanmapping.com/ http://www.urbanmapping.com/ - for data [ http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog ] and custom map rendering [ http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence ].

dannyr 15y ago

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Places-API http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Plac...

clojurerocks 15y ago

I was just looking into the geolocation issue myself recently. Looked at simplegeo but decided against it. The question really is what is your app going to do. The difficulty really with geolocation these days isnt the lack of data points rather its figuring out the needs of your application and whether or not these services will fit into that. In reality even with these services location based apps are still a pain to develop.

jchrisa 15y ago

Couchbase now includes the GeoCouch R-tree indexer by default: http://blog.couchbase.com/new-release-geocouch-extension http://blog.couchbase.com/new-release-geocouch-extension This is the same indexer that is powering open gov't projects around the world: http://maxogden.com/#blog/diy-open-data-catalog http://maxogden.com/#blog/diy-open-data-catalog

simon_kun 15y ago

If you mean tech as opposed to their data offerings, you should take a look at CartoDB http://www.cartodb.com http://www.cartodb.com. All the power of PostGIS with a lot of the pain points rounded off.

chenli 15y ago

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Bimaple.com. Bimaple provides powerful location-based search services. Check omniplaces.com for a demonstration site that supports instant, error-tolerant search on more than 17 million business listings. Customers can build a search application easily using our product.