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freyfogle
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About freyfogle
organizer of Geomob: https://thegeomob.com
mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@freyfogle website: https://www.freyfogle.com
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Comment #44840679
C'mon Jilles, as we say in Germany "no risk, no fun"
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Comment #43977758
Thanks, amigo. If you want to come by and show me how it's done, you are more than welcome. As it happens, yes, we were a family fo four.
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Comment #43977494
you can do a lot of things. You can live as a hunter/gatherer. The question is do you want to live like that?
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Comment #43970713
To my knowledge there are no rules against it, it is just a major and expensive plumbing project requiring redoing the whole kitchen. And so as a landlord why bother, you will alwa…
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Comment #43970196
not seven, but yes, I had two small children at the time
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Comment #43968079
If you know where to look there are still a few old wall maps left in the Barbican that show the old high walks
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Comment #43968067
I lived there for three years, rented a flat. Living in the Barbican was fantastic, livign in my flat was not fantastic. I used to joke it was a time machine to 1965. There was not…
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Comment #43773177
Possibly, but they only cover the US
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Comment #43772933
If you think that is a fair trade I would love the chance to talk with you and save you A LOT of money. Our experience (10+ years of offering a geocoding service) is that many peop…
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Comment #43772746
> I suppose you can't please everyone. correct
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Comment #43772302
well the pricing models are per request, but just in easy to understand buckets (small, medium, large). Our experience is most people prefer this as they know exactly what they wil…
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Comment #43772265
IP geolocation is a different (albeit similar) topic than geocoding. See: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-ip-geolocation-differs-f...
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Comment #43772113
There is a list here (vs. Google) https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-switch-from-google-ma... though really the key difference is the fact that we use open data. Googles data i…
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Comment #43772043
Hi, Great. The only real answer is you should sign up for a free trial (takes 2 min, requires just an email address) and test with your actual input data. Which language are you wo…
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Comment #43771679
I'm sorry but not surprised to read that you had a bad experience with positionstack. They have been unreliable for years, and worse yet unresponsive about it. If you still need ge…
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Comment #43771595
Hi, Ed here, one of the founders of OpenCage. This comparison is a bit shallow to be honest, as it basically just looks at price. Of course price is important, but as someone who h…
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Comment #43233808
How many of the twitter followers are live humans?
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Comment #42981914
yes, of course. The question is have all the developers writing their own code to deal with zip codes also adapted?
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Comment #42978285
it is safe to assume nothing. Please see: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes... I write this as someone who grew up in the ZIP code 09180
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Comment #42977058
There are many problems with zip codes / postal codes but the biggest two we see are: a. Excel treats them as numbers instead of strings of digits and thus drops the leading 0 b. D…
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Comment #42192944
Not enough people wanted to check in. Those that did were all of the same demographic. So lots of check-ins at bars / restaurants, none at "boring" shops., doctor's office, etc. Th…
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Comment #41218666
be the change you want. Start fixing your area.
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Comment #40021739
There is a whole fund full: https://calmfund.com And other fund with this same model: https://tinyseed.com
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Comment #39964741
As someone who is burdened with several thousands in filing costs every year (not tax, I mean the cost of paying an accountant to deal with the filing, which is required for all US…
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Comment #39964690
Obviously there is fraud everywhere. Still, I have a higher level of basic trust when dealing with a GmbH than someone who created their Ltd Co 3 hours ago. It's just a sign they a…