[Qgis-developer] GeoCoding plugins

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 18/06/2015 09:47, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto:

> GeoCoding functionality is also available directly in GDAL core, we
> could also use that API and leave particular (local) cases for plugins,
> see my experiments here to get and idea about what can be done with GDAL
> GeoCoding API:
> 
> http://www.itopen.it/geocoding-with-gdal/lang-pref/en/
> 
> The main concern I see with core inclusion is that most of the times you
> are using proprietary geocoding services (like Google's one) you break
> their TOS. Expecially when doing batch geocoding, you also have to take
> care of number of calls/sec. and you *must* implement local caching (as
> GDAL does).

Thanks Alessandro. Could a warning about this would solve the issue on
our side?
All the best.

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