I really like the look of your API. I work a lot with location-based apps, I'll probably be giving this a go :)
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#22The ability to understant how the input was parsed is an interesting feature, but i think it'd better be optional.
Most of the times users will only care about the results, so you'll be sending useless data
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#23Neat 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 si…
They both pull in Tiger data + other sources (so the expected outcome would be that they are more complete in some areas).
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#24The ability to understant how the input was parsed is an interesting feature, but i think it'd better be optional. Most of the times users will only care about the results, so you'll be sending useless data
Good point, we might want add that as an optional parameter. Also note that our address address parsing API endpoint is free and doesn't count towards the usage statistics and billing :)
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#25This is very cool! We use SmartyStreets because of the price. Where did you get the addresses database?
In another comment OP says the source is US Census Bureau.
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#26Will your service be expanding to provide reverse geocoding? we would be interested if it did both (we need both).
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#27Will your service be expanding to provide reverse geocoding? we would be interested if it did both (we need both).
If there's enough interest, we'll definitely be working on this next. It would just require a slight restructuring of our data to make the lookups as efficient as possible.
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#28Interesting. What interesting things can you do once you geocode a street address? How are you (your business) using this?
We mainly use it personally for putting locations on a map. It can also be used to calculate distances and many other things.
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#29Where the pricing says $.001/ea for 2501+ geocodes, are the first 2500/day prior to that still free? Or am I paying $2.50 for the day as soon as I make that 1 extra request above the free limit?
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