[OSGeo-Discuss] Street address to coordinates database lookup?

[Peter]

Brilliant, the name helps a lot.

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

Licensed for use only with google maps, i guess thats as good as ill get.

Peter


Mike Toews wrote:
> FYI, the terms you are looking for is geocoding and reverse geocoding
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_geocoding
>
> But I haven't done much of this myself, so that's where I stop being useful.
>
> -Mike
>
> On 7 September 2010 15:01, Peter<webwiz at pl.net>  wrote:
>> In NZ as i guess in most places we have a national system of rural property
>> addressing (RAPID) where the street number is based on how many meters down
>> the road the property gate is. These are stored in Land Informations
>> property on line database.
>>
>> My question is there any official or unofficial ways to access this street
>> number to latlong coords data online?
>>
>> Googlemaps evidently has access to it for its searchs, failing better
>> methods perhaps scrape their results page???
>>
>> Peter
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