[Qgis-user] geocoding

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

Check the Google Maps API and see the section 'Reverse Geocoding'. That
should sort you out
Yemi
On May 14, 2012 5:22 PM, "Ezra Boyd" <eboyd3 at tigers.lsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Google Fuzion Tables makes this very easy (at least for the U.S.)
> First you upload the your list of addresses into Google Doc's, then
> you open it up as a Fuzion Table.  Then under the Visualize tool,
> select Map.  This will display your points in a Google Maps like
> environment.  It also lets you download and save the points as a .kml
> file (which you can open in QGIS).
>
> It has been a while since I have done this, so I don't know how it has
> changed with the new Google Drive.
>
> Hope it helps!
>
> Ezra
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:51 AM, M.E.Dodd <m.e.dodd at open.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion.  I thought this was possible in qgis just
> from a
> > list of addresses (within limits on numbers of matches per day) but
> perhaps
> > not.  Currently I am trying http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/however
> > with yahoo to match against the results are of rather limited use. Most
> of
> > the addresses are actually in uk but come back as showing in usa,
> perhaps I
> > need to add country name.  a bit more worrying is exact same address
> shown
> > up in different places and giving different coordinate pairs a number of
> > miles apart.  There is also a limit of 1000 addresses.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: QGIS [mailto:qgis at dandittmann.org]
> > Sent: 14 May 2012 16:21
> > To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] geocoding
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05/14/2012 08:35 AM, M.E.Dodd wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to geocode a list of addresses? I have the geocoding
> plugin
> > loaded and it works (api key sorted out) but not sure how to get the
> list of
> > addresses into qgis as they have no x,y location info at the moment.  Am
> > sure this question asked before but could not find the answer.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr Mike Dodd
> >
> > Department of Environment, Earth and Ecosystems
> >
> > The Open University
> > Walton Hall
> > Milton Keynes
> > MK7 6AA
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.ispot.org.uk/
> >
> > http://www.floodplainmeadows.org.uk/
> >
> >
> >
> > I am aware of two potential solutions:
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) Locate a webservice and have that produce the Latitude/Longitude
> > coordinate pairs.
> >
> > This site has several:
> > https://webgis.usc.edu/Services/Geocode/About/GeocoderList.aspx
> >
> > Most as far as I can tell do not have support outside the United States
> > however.
> >
> >
> >
> > Ultimately it would be a nice feature to have added to the plugin.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2) The solution I had to go with was to use PostGIS outside of QGIS to
> > generate the Latitude/Longitude pairs. This may not work depending on
> your
> > setup, available time, knowledge level, budget, or level of access within
> > your organization.
> >
> >
> >
> > The available documentation I found assumes that United States Census
> Bureau
> > data is used to geocode against. This solution could be made to work for
> > other countries if the same/similar type of data released by the US
> Census
> > Bureau is made available by the locality for which you wish to geocode
> for.
> > Changes likely will be needed either to the setup scripts or the final
> > database columns prior to loading data from your locality to take into
> > account differences between how things are done in the US versus your
> > locality. Examples might include length and data type of postal codes and
> > state/provincial abbreviations.
> >
> >
> >
> > Some information can be found here:
> > http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/Geocode.html
> >
> > A setup guide
> > http://www.letseehere.com/postgis-geocoder-using-tiger-2010-data
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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