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Hi, I'm working on an application that need to do Geocoding, and it's a problem that's definitely not solved. We've tried countless solutions but hadn't found
by Trufa 13y ago
Hi, I'm working on an application that need to do Geocoding, and it's a problem that's definitely not solved.
We've tried countless solutions but hadn't found any satisfying one until now. We cannot (and will not) use Google's geocoder becuse we wont put the information on a google map (part of their TOS).
We recently tried decarta and seems to be working really really good! http://decarta.com/ http://decarta.com/ Unfortunately some house numbers are missing, but still, the quality is pretty high!
(I dont have any affiliation with them, we're just a customer now.)
Also, I would like to bash yahoo placefinder! It's realatively decent in finding addresses, but, but, but! The pricing is very high, the documentation ludicrous, customer service/forums nonexistent and you'll get terrible uptime, from now once a day or two, you'll just get mysterious 503 for which the official answer seems to be wait for a while, and hopefully it will fix itself, Just effing great!
- gjkood 13y agoWe are leaning towards MapQuest because their pricing was much better than Google Maps for the kind of volume that our client was looking at. We had to go with the business license approach because of the TOS involved. BTW, MapQuest does have a "Community License" which unfortunately for us was using data from OpenStreetMaps and not the data behind its commercial product.