[OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding

[JP Glutting]

JP: Hi! :-D That is a good point. It is not a problem unless they know what
the addresses represent. All I need back are the coordinates.

Puneet: Thanks, I will keep that in mind, but these are not US addresses.

Cheers,
JP

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:23 PM, JP Glutting <jpglutting at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>> OpenAddresses has some regions where data was donated – there you will get
>> high-quality results. Unfortunately this is not yet globally available…
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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