[Qgis-user] is a google maps api key still required with qgis geocode plugin?

[Dennis M. Linton]

Regarding reverse geocoding accuracy for the Google geocoding plugin for
QGIS, I cannot speak for other countries but the accuracy was very low
for some locations I attempted to reverse geocode in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada.  The same address would be returned for every building in a one
block span of a given street or the address range for the block would be
returned - all depending on where one clicked.  

The street number returned for one building, where the correct address
was already known, was wrong.  Province, city and street were almost
always correct but street numbers, as far I as I can confirm, where
almost always wrong.  Street was incorrect occasionally.  Country ID
should be very accurate but I would pay close attention to values
returned for locations near borders.

In case the CRS (NAD83 UTM 17N) was somehow involved, I reprojected to
Google Mercator but it made no difference at all.

- Dennis

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 13:48 +0000, M.E.Dodd wrote: 

> Actually I don’t really understand the api issue as the latest version
> of the google api says that there is no api key needed.
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> What I want to do is reverse geocode a large number of lat long pairs,
> I don’t want to display them particularly and certainly not put them
> on a website, I am just doing data analysis.  I understand there is a
> limit of 2,500 lat long pairs per day on google, I seem to recall when
> I looked into this a year or so ago the limit was higher than this.
> Wonder if there is a way of putting in some kind of batch command that
> will send this number in per day for a month or so or until all the
> ones I need to reverse geocode have been done.
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> This is obviously much slower than using detailed country outlines in
> the gis to achieve country id for the points.  Does anyone know how
> accurate the reverse geocoded data is for country ID (or the more
> detailed info on the address), it seems to be very accurate so they
> must have extremely detailed country outlines, much more detailed than
> are freely available?
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