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   by freyfogle 4y ago

   Yes, lots of geoweird things about the Netherlands. See: https://twitter.com/OpenCage/status/1511722717476700163
2. 62.▲
   by freyfogle 4y ago

   you may enjoy: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes...
3. 63.▲
   by freyfogle 4y ago

   Grew up in zip code 09180. Have fun with that.
4. 64.▲
   by freyfogle 4y ago

   Wait until you find out about cars. Also pretty tough on other road users.
5. 65.▲
   by freyfogle 5y ago

   Happy to look into specific cases if you share the details: https://opencagedata.com/contact re: Places - to my knowledge no one has a product equivalent to Google's in terms of size and freshness of the database. Sor
6. 66.▲
   by freyfogle 5y ago

   Agree! For Maps have a look at: https://www.thunderforest.com https://stadiamaps.com For geocoding, you can check out my business: https://opencagedata.com We provide a worldwide geocoding API based on op
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   by freyfogle 5y ago

   surprised no one has mentioend the excellent Extremities podcast, one of the seasons was about life on and history of Pitcairn https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arrival-on-pitcairn/id...
8. 68.▲
   by freyfogle 5y ago

   This is the correct answer. Be less clever. Makes life much simpler for whoever has to maintain your code (which may well be you).
9. 69.▲
   by freyfogle 5y ago

   Here's an interview with Steve Bennett, the creator of OpenTrees, from a little more than a year ago: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/opentrees
10. 70.▲
    by freyfogle 5y ago

    Without having looked in detail I would guess this is a situation where no license just causes confusion. Now it's unclear what is allowed. Ideally they would be explicit about what is allowed. Anyway, if it is allowed, using that data
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    by freyfogle 5y ago

    Hi, thanks for the kind words. You are right that a geocoder is only as good as the data available to it. Happily OSM is great for many use cases and getting better literally every day. Whether it is good enough now for your use case will d
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    by freyfogle 5y ago

    Hi, Ed from OpenCage here, thanks for the kinds words! It's true we don't have any open positions right now. But anyone who is into geo stuff in general and geocoding specifically can dive in to OpenStreetMap and the open source l
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    100 Million OpenStreetMap Changesets(openstreetmap.org)

    8 points by freyfogle 6y ago|0 comments
14. 74.▲
    by freyfogle 6y ago

    Can't upvote this comment enough. Have wasted years of my life on these invisible, but sadly necessary, features.
15. 75.▲
    by freyfogle 6y ago

    You may enjoy this start-up working on this problem, the demo is impressive. https://www.dentreality.com
16. 76.▲
    by freyfogle 6y ago

    yes, definitely. If you are manipulating text, Perl is great.
17. 77.▲
    by freyfogle 6y ago

    Here is a project to aggregate all the various open city and regional tree datasets: https://opentrees.org
18. 78.▲
    by freyfogle 6y ago

    Here is a service that aggregates the various public, opendata sets https://opentrees.org
19. 79.▲
    by freyfogle 6y ago

    thanks for the fast and reassuring answer, I appreciate it. I'll wait until that message goes away, I can't risk losing my private repos.
20. 80.▲
    by freyfogle 6y ago

    I currently pay for a Github Silver plan annually ($600). When I try to downgrade to Free I get a message (in red) "You will no longer be able to access your private repositories or create new private repositories." How do I downg
21. 81.▲
    by freyfogle 7y ago

    Lots of creative things could be done for that use case, the challenge is getting (and maintaining) a usable/affordable database of places.
22. 82.▲
    by freyfogle 7y ago

    Hi Barcelona readers If you're into BCN geo stuff please come along to GeomobBCN - our next event is on 6th of May, details here: https://thegeomob.com/post/may-6th-2020-geomobbcn-details Here's a twitter thr
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    Add your location to Git commits(github.com)

    2 points by freyfogle 7y ago|0 comments
24. 84.▲
    by freyfogle 7y ago

    perlbrew works great for me, never had a reason to seek a different solution
25. 85.▲
    by freyfogle 8y ago

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26. 86.▲
    by freyfogle 8y ago

    We are here to help if you need geocoding: https://opencagedata.com
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    by freyfogle 8y ago

    You contributed the data so that they - and everyone else - can do what they want with it as long as they stay within the terms of the license. I don't see that they are violating the license by choosing to render that data a certain w
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    by freyfogle 8y ago

    There is a company in the UK that makes something similar today: http://www.splash-maps.com A great gift as you can centre it on your friend’s house
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    by freyfogle 8y ago

    Hi, co-founder of OpenCage here. It depends heavily on what your use case is: forward or reverse, which part of the world, what level of granularity, etc. Google offers a great geocoding service, no doubt. But you also have to pay their pri
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    by freyfogle 8y ago

    some other good OSM map options are: http://www.thunderforest.com https://stadiamaps.com For geocoding: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com For routing: https://www.graphhopper.com