[Qgis-user] Reliable geocoding alternative?

[Charles Dixon-Paver]

Just a note that if anyone is looking for spatial address information for
geocoding purposes, https://openaddresses.io/ is an interesting looking
project (it only has very specific coverage regions though)...

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 16:20, Nicolas Cadieux <njacadieux.gitlab at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Do you have coordinates (x,y) in that csv?  You can generate the
> geometries from that.  If not, you will need to find a database for that.
> What were you planing on using for the geospatial info?
>
> Nicolas Cadieux
>
> Le 23 sept. 2020 à 10:17, Erich Purpur <epurpur at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 
> Thank you again for your response. I understand what you suggest but it
> won't work in this case unfortunately.
>
> I only have a .csv file, which has an address and all the other
> information too. There is no other layer.
>
> -Erich
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:12 AM Nicolas Cadieux <
> njacadieux.gitlab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> To do this, you need two files. If they are csv, you can use that.  If
>> you are limited in what you can do, just save a geopackage.  You will need
>> one file with the addresses (that you have) and one file, or a data base
>> with the georeferenced information.  Do you have that? If not what where
>> you planing to use to find the geographic positions of the objects?
>>
>> A csv is a vector layer if it’s georeferenced or a database if it’s not.
>> You may be limited in what you can do but export it to a for at that QGIS
>> can write to like geopackage or SpatiaLite which is the same thing but with
>> not spatial info.
>>
>> Nicolas Cadieux
>>
>> Le 23 sept. 2020 à 08:52, Erich Purpur <epurpur at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> 
>> Hi Nicolas-
>>
>> The issue is that I have data in a .csv file. Each row has an address.
>> Both the 'join attributes by location' and 'join attributes by field value'
>> tool specify that it joins vector layers. But I don't have a vector layer.
>>
>> -Erich
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:41 PM Nicolas Cadieux <
>> njacadieux.gitlab at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Why not just use "Join Attributes by Location" or "Join Attributes by
>>> Field Value" in Processing?  If you have inconsistent results, I would look
>>> at your data base.  Are you using unique fields?  Do you have duplicate
>>> shapes or shape collections (MultiPoints, Mulit...)?  What method are you
>>> using? intersects, within...  ?
>>>
>>> Nicolas
>>> On 2020-09-22 7:19 p.m., Erich Purpur wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all-
>>>
>>> Geocoding is the one process I am still doing in ArcPro. Most of the
>>> QGIS geocoding tutorials I have found recommend using the Geocoding tool in
>>> MMQGIS but I have really struggled to get consistent results.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an alternative Geocoding plugin or other tool they
>>> use?  It doesn't have to be within QGIS, an external tool would be fine.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Erich Purpur
>>>
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