Comments on: So Many Geocoder Options

By: Roll Your Own Postal Code Database - Map Scripting

Roll Your Own Postal Code Database - Map Scripting — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:39:50 +0000

[...] apps use zip codes to determine a user’s location. You can get the results with a geocoder service, or you can roll your own. From the same folks that supply the IP geolocation database, you can [...]

By: AdamD

AdamD — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:20:26 +0000

I think the biggest reason someone would choose geocoder.us is that it has completely open terms of service. Paying for a commercial product nearly always gives you more flexibility.

By: Travis Spencer

Travis Spencer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:30:27 +0000

Does geocoder.us provide additional functionality or quality above these free services? If not, why would anyone use it rather than the others?

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:55:21 +0000

Check out cloudmade’s offering. It uses OSM for the data. I haven’t played with it myself, but have heard good things.

By: frost

frost — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:15:09 +0000

The geopy package wiki (http://code.google.com/p/geopy/wiki/GettingStarted) lists an additional service called geonames and says that geocoder.us is free for non-commercial purposes. Certainly, I can use geopy with geocoder.us without an account but I haven’t used it very much.