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

[Arnie Shore]

No need to screen-scrape; the GMaps API provides for geocoding in both
directions.

Secondly, White Pages also provides an API for US telco land-line  numbers.
See http://developer.whitepages.com/

NZ ??

AS

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com> 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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