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OpenAddresses is a directory of publicly available address lists provided by government agencies at various levels. It's designed to be bulk imported by machine. Many addresses exi…

They're great and we have many friends at both companies. Our main goal is to get map data and software into the open so others working toward that goal are not really competitors.…

Nominatim, which I worked with at MapQuest Open when it launched, is a great geocoder for purely OSM data. We built Pelias ( https://github.com/pelias ) at Mapzen because Nominatim…

Mapzen uses only open data, in particular OpenStreetMap and OpenAddresses ( http://openaddresses.io/ ). This means anyone can improve the results and always have access to the data…

Yes -- if you're at State of the Map US in NYC this weekend, we'll be demoing it live. Stay tuned.

There is no proprietary component, if you want to self-host it's all here: https://github.com/valhalla But there is a free hosted service (with API signup) for convenience.

Search Product Manager - New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin At Mapzen we take a different approach to the core components of mapping: open source, open data, open access. We m…

Nominatim is not built to handle autocomplete, which is a requirement for many consumer apps. Thus the focus on Lucene, where you get that for free, instead of building your own fu…