[postgis-users] Reverse Geocode

suraj birla surajbirla at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 11:09:30 PDT 2019


Maurizio,

Thank you very much for pointing to me right direction.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:03 AM Maurizio Napolitano <napoogle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You can find all the answers to your questions here
> https://www.stevegattuso.me/2019/05/29/postgis-reverse-geocoder.html
> Enjoy
>
> Il lun 15 lug 2019, 19:53 suraj birla <surajbirla at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our environment  has Postgres database with PostGIS extension.
>> User/application run postGIS query. Works fine.
>>
>> Normally we get millions of point ( lat/lon) and our requirement to
>> assign addresses to most of the point.
>>
>> Currently we use Google API/ 3rd party service and call reverse geocode
>> api to get the addresses for lat/lon.
>>
>> Since the number of points are increasing day by day, its becoming
>> challenging to  process millions of points and sometime our processes get
>> hung. Lastly there is cost associated to the API calls and throttle .
>>
>> I was thinking of loading OSM data into postgres database and then write
>> a sql job which will do a lookup  to OSM tables and assign address to each
>> lat/lon.
>>
>>
>> Question:
>> 1. Where do I find free OSM data which I can directly load into database?
>> 2. Is there any document /link which will guide to load the address for
>> lat/lon?
>> 3. Any tips/recommendations?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Suraj
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