Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
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Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
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Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#2How is MapZen's international geocoding? I couldn't find info on their website saying how good their coverage is of different countries and languages.
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#3How is MapZen's international geocoding? I couldn't find info on their website saying how good their coverage is of different countries and languages.
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 if something's missing.
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#4How is MapZen's international geocoding? I couldn't find info on their website saying how good their coverage is of different countries and languages.
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 if something's missing.
How is it different than a hosted Nominatim then?
Edit: I see they're using https://github.com/pelias/pelias .
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#5How is MapZen's international geocoding? I couldn't find info on their website saying how good their coverage is of different countries and languages.
It's built on open data sets, including OpenStreetMap and OpenAddresses. In populated areas coverage is really good. Thanks to OpenAddresses, several countries have full address coverage. You can see the coverage map on openaddresses.io. New data gets added as these open data sources grow.
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 if something's missing.
How is it different than a hosted Nominatim then? Edit: I see they're using https://github.com/pelias/pelias .
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 is not built to handle autocomplete. We also wanted to start with a fulltext search engine -- Elasticsearch in this case -- instead of Postgres with search logic on top of it. We also wanted to search other open datasets like the fast-growing OpenAddresses.
We host Pelias at Mapzen and you can check out the autocomplete as well as fulltext search here: https://mapzen.com/projects/search
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it different than a hosted Nominatim then? Edit: I see they're using https://github.com/pelias/pelias .
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 is not built to handle autocomplete. We also wanted to start with a fulltext search engine -- Elasticsearch in this case -- instead of Postgres with search logic on top of it. We also wanted to search other open datasets like the fast-grow…
Thanks for explaining!
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it different than a hosted Nominatim then? Edit: I see they're using https://github.com/pelias/pelias .
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 is not built to handle autocomplete. We also wanted to start with a fulltext search engine -- Elasticsearch in this case -- instead of Postgres with search logic on top of it. We also wanted to search other open datasets like the fast-grow…
Offtopic, but what do you think about MapBox and CartoDB? Do you see them as competitors?
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 is not built to handle autocomplete. We also wanted to start with a fulltext search engine -- Elasticsearch in this case -- instead of Postgres with search logic on top of it. We also wanted to search other open datasets like the fast-grow…
Offtopic, but what do you think about MapBox and CartoDB? Do you see them as competitors?
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.
If there's overlap, I don't see why that's a bad thing. The geo industry has had the problem of too few options for a while. More options are a good thing.
Re: Search up to 10K addresses with free holiday batch geocoding service
#10How is MapZen's international geocoding? I couldn't find info on their website saying how good their coverage is of different countries and languages.
It's built on open data sets, including OpenStreetMap and OpenAddresses. In populated areas coverage is really good. Thanks to OpenAddresses, several countries have full address coverage. You can see the coverage map on openaddresses.io. New data gets added as these open data sources grow.
Why does OpenAddress need to exist separately from OSM? Can address geocoding data not be properly represented in OSM?