[OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding

[JP Glutting]

Thanks for all the responses! I will track them all down and see how they
work.

Stark, I have 146,472 addresses in the city of Barcelona. Many of them are
duplicates, but at the very least I have 31,514 that need to be coded,
although that would leave out many that I want to use. I am in the process
of developing filters to clean out apartment numbers, etc., to be able to
pull a single coordinate for a whole set of addresses, and there are at
least 6,000 that are invalid (from the original 146k, so 140k). It is a lot.
I will take a look at openaddresses and do some testing.

Thanks!
JP


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Stark Hans-Jörg <hansjoerg.stark at fhnw.ch>wrote:

> The OpenAddresses project (www.openaddresses.org) is supposed to solve
> exactly your problem.
>
> You can use the provided geocoding services (
> http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/wiki/RESTService)
>
>
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> OpenAddresses has some regions where data was donated – there you will get
> high-quality results. Unfortunately this is not yet globally available…
>
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>
> Hth
>
> -hj
>
>
>
> *Von:* discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 14:34
> *An:* discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> *Betreff:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have a large set of addresses (around 150k) that I need to geocode for a
> study (my Masters thesis on heat-related mortality). I am looking into
> different solutions, but I can't find anything that seems like it would work
> properly.
>
>
>
> I could script a solution using Google's map API, but there is a limit of
> 2,500 addreses per day (I can get around them with a little patience).
>
>
>
> Right now the best solution I am looking at geopy for geocoding addresses (
> http://code.google.com/p/geopy/). It seems like a good system, I think I
> can use it to pull addresses out of my database and write back coordinates.
> There is one thing that I am not sure, about, though, is whether I am
> actually allowed to use the Google API without my use being liked to a
> specific web page. The terms of service and form for getting a Google API
> key require a URL linked to a Google account. In fact, it looks like the API
> can only be used through a web site:
>
>
>
> "5.2 *Account Key*. After supplying Google with your account information
> and the URL of your Maps API Implementation, and accepting the Terms, you
> will be issued an alphanumeric key assigned to you by Google that is
> uniquely associated with your Google Account and the URL of your Maps API
> Implementation. Your Maps API Implementation must import the Google Maps
> APIs using this key as described in the Maps APIs Documentation<http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/>,
> and Google will block requests with an invalid key or invalid URL. You may
> only obtain and use a key in accordance with these Terms and the Maps APIs
> Documentation <http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/>."
>
>
>
> So it looks like I can't even get it to work without a URL.
>
>
>
> I can always write a script that loops through results extracted from the
> database, creates URLs and parses the XML results one at a time, but that
> seems like a fairly inelegant solution.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any good ideas about how to geocode a few thousand
> addresses?
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> JP
>
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