Also free http://geocoder.us/
I believe they have a daily limit as well. They also charge $50/20k addresses for bulk geocoding which is way more than what we charge :)
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#12Great job, guys! This definitely opens up some nice options. Reminds me how much I miss the old TIGER/Line file formats, though.
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#13Very nice. Pricing is very attractive. May need to use this in the future.
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#14For an API, you can also try http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ (which is kinda free -- and uses OpenStreetMap data). The biggest problem we've had is changing non well-formed addresses / ambiguous addresses into canonical addresses with lat/lng. Google Maps wins on that front.
We obviously can't beat Google in that case :) That's also why it's priced to be way more affordable. It does however happen that Geocodio is more accurate than Google Maps - try for example "8895 Highway 29 South, 30646" (Address of a CVS store) on Google Maps and Geocodio.
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#15I like the price point about $1/1000records. Just curious to hear how you arrived at this price point.
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#16I work at SmartyStreets, where we've learned that geocoding is very, very difficult, so I definitely feel your pain! We started with basic Census Bureau stuff and it's definitely complicated, and accuracy can be spotty. (We've since worked with other data vendors to improve the accuracy.) It's too bad we don't all have little cars to roam the country with and manually collect rooftop-level data like Google does.
+1 on the versioned API endpoint... when we released ours nearly 8 years ago, versioning APIs wasn't really a thing yet. We're paying that technical debt off now as we vigorously rewrite and improve our service.
Quick feedback: Links on the FAQ page are hard to distinguish from regular text.
Good luck with the project!
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#17Neat website! Very clean, simple pricing. Thank you for batch geocoding to minimize network traffic... How does the accuracy (as well as address parsing capabilities) compare to the completely free solutions such as Nominatim[1] or DSTK[2]? Both services provide capabilities for local installations, obviously with no query limits and minimal latency. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim [2] http://www.dat…
Thanks! Yes, I haven't really seen a lot of other services that provides batch geocoding as an API endpoint.
We have mostly been running tests against the Google Maps API, and from a totally random sample of 100 address, 90 of them were within a mile from the Google Maps API returned location (Most of them were actually within 0.01 mile).
I'm not sure how we would compare to OpenStreetMaps and Data Science Toolkit since our data source is different (US Census Bureau). - But the obvious reason why we provide this as a SaaS, is that you don't have to host anything yourself, or juggle around with gigabytes of boundary data. We handle all the mess.
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#18I've been doing freelance geocoding gigs for a couple of institutions in the past years (canadian addresses), with only open source tools and data. I also wrote a primer explaining the basic geocoding ideas: http://cjauvin.blogspot.ca/2012/04/lean-geocoding.html
Great blog post! We obviously also use address interpolation to determine the exact location.
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#19I like the price point about $1/1000records. Just curious to hear how you arrived at this price point.
Our infrastructure is pretty efficient, making us able to keep our operating costs low. We wanted to have a pricing point that was below any other similar services we could find.
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#20I work at SmartyStreets, where we've learned that geocoding is very, very difficult, so I definitely feel your pain! We started with basic Census Bureau stuff and it's definitely complicated, and accuracy can be spotty. (We've since worked with other data vendors to improve the accuracy.) It's too bad we don't all have little cars to roam the country with and manually collect rooftop-level data like Google does. +1 o…
Thanks! Yes, it is definitely not easy, a lot of edge cases to take care of too. Luckily we are not trying to directly compete with any of the big guys out there, which makes us able to keep the price low and the output high.
We'll update the FAQ links, thanks!