UI suggestion: 'street addresses' currently has a box around it, so I thought it was an field, thought "how cute", tried to click on it to enter an address to geocode, and was disappointed to find out it was just some bolded text. Might be a fun little feature to have that actually be an entry point into trying out a demo of the API (I thought I was supposed to enter an address to have geocoded).
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#32I oversaw a project like this elsewhere (where we had reams and reams of geo coordinates, but we needed text searchable tags (like "Canada", "Toronto", etc).
We had millions of them though, so maybe an API isn't really the way to go.
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#33Where 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?
Yep, the first 2500/day will always be free. So if you geocoded 2510 addresses in one day, you would pay $0.01
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#34Interesting. What interesting things can you do once you geocode a street address? How are you (your business) using this?
It allows you to put markers on an embedded google map. You can also do directions to and from markers, etc.
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#35so.. us addresses only?
Yep! Unfortunately we will manually have to add support for each country (including getting data, normalizing it, etc.) which is quite some work. We're planning to add support for additional countries if demand is high enough.
Separating a street name into "street" and "suffix" is a baffling decision which probably has a few issues even in the US, and definitely won't work elsewhere.
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#36Is it possible to delete an account? I created one before discovering it was US only.
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#37Is it possible to delete an account? I created one before discovering it was US only.
Sure! Just send us an email at support@geocod.io and I'll remove your account right away.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep! Unfortunately we will manually have to add support for each country (including getting data, normalizing it, etc.) which is quite some work. We're planning to add support for additional countries if demand is high enough.
Separating a street name into "street" and "suffix" is a baffling decision which probably has a few issues even in the US, and definitely won't work elsewhere.
Nope, it won't work outside the US. But US addresses actually have a list of suffixes that all ordinary addresses comply to. See https://www.usps.com/send/official-abbreviations.htm
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#39Gah! This is awesome. Where were you when I was trying to get an idea launched and the cost of geocoding was the wall I kept hitting??? Seriously this makes my week, maybe it's time to dust off some old projects...
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#40Gah! This is awesome. Where were you when I was trying to get an idea launched and the cost of geocoding was the wall I kept hitting??? Seriously this makes my week, maybe it's time to dust off some old projects...
Feedback like this is exactly why we released this (and made it so cheap) :)