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One thing that I make use of but don't see too many services providing is some kind of 'match level' - where the geocoder returns a code indicating how confident it is about the qu…

The OSGB in the UK did something similar last year: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecraf... Apparently it was built by an intern, it took him two weeks to c…

The problem with the iframe approach is that Google's geocoding service TOS explicitly states that the output of the geocode operation can only be displayed on a Google map. Google…

Not quite retail, but Amazon's main Data Centre in Dublin is the former main warehouse used by one of Ireland's largest retailers. It's gone from being full of beans and nappies to…

The 'spat' broke out on the OGC Mailing list, here's the May Archive: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-May/ There are about 100 messages about it on there. There's als…

Have you seen CycleStreets: http://www.cyclestreets.net/

Their MapBox.js library is a plugin for the increasingly popular Leaflet.js mapping library: http://mapbox.com/mapbox.js/api/v1.0.2/ As an aside, MapBox (via funding from the Knigh…

I believe that other transport modes (public transport, on foot) are in the pipeline, but the amount of additional compute power they need is significant Also Public Transport rout…

The creation of so called 'Trap Streets' is well known - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs However putting a non-existent island on a Marine chart used for n…

I'll add the obligatory tip of the hat to www.openstreetmap.org - it's community basis and the ease of use of it's editing tools make this kind of issue very easy for users to fix.…

An update, also on PasteBin: http://pastebin.com/g1C7d82G