[Qgis-user] geocoding

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

Sorry, please I meant to have said 'Geocoding'.
I apologise for the initial mix up. The Javascript API platform for
geocoding is pretty straight forward
Cheers!
On May 14, 2012 5:26 PM, "Akinyemi Emmanuel" <akinboj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Dan Dittmann
>> >
>> >
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