the opencage geocoder
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Slides of a talk delivered by Ed Freyfogle (@freyfogle) about the OpenCage Geocoder at #WhereBerlin on 14th Nov 2014 in Berlin. Please try the geocoder http://geocoder.opencagedata.com we welcome your feedbackTRANSCRIPT
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A meta-geocoding API
Ed Freyfogle#WhereBerlin - 14 Nov. 2014
http://opencagedata.com@opencagedata
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- based in London- 20 employees- since 2006
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- residential real estate search engine- 9 countries- process 20M listings / day- 4M users / month
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You Geonames
and more
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placename long/lat
forward
reverse
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Yes!
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Yes! but …T&Csexpensive at volume
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OpenStreetMap
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Yes!
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Yes! but …not for high volume usevariable coveragehard/expensive to set up
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Yes!
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Yes! and …one API, many geocodersfree as in freedomdev friendly (annotations, etc)
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Open datause any map you like cache as long as you likefix itget creative
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Win on dev friendliness
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52.54448,13.35322
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Formatting "components" : {
"city_district" : "Mitte", "country" : "Germany", "country_code" : "de", "house_number" : “10”, "neighbourhood" : "Sprengelkiez", "postcode" : "13353", "road" : "Luxemburger Straße", "state" : "Berlin", "suburb" : "Wedding" },
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Formatting "components" : {
"city_district" : "Mitte", "country" : "Germany", "country_code" : "de", "house_number" : “10”, "neighbourhood" : "Sprengelkiez", "postcode" : "13353", "road" : "Luxemburger Straße", "state" : "Berlin", "suburb" : "Wedding" },
“formatted” : "Luxemburger Straße 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany",
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115 New Cavendish Street, London W1T 5DU, United Kingdom
223 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Rosenthaler Straße 1, 10119 Berlin, Germany
Via Pisacane, 13, 76121 Barletta BT, Italy
3 Upper Alma Road, Rosebank, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
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We need your help https://github.com/lokku/address-formatting
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Annotationstimezones OS gridrefs geohash, MGRS, Maidenheadwhat3wordscalling codes
time of sunrise/sunset
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Win on dev friendliness
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Start geocoding:opencagedata.com
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What’s next?leave beta, start chargingmore formatting, annotationsdedupefeedback to OSM
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Like geo and in London?
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See you at #geomob13th Jan geomobldn.org
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Ed Freyfogle#WhereBerlin - 14 Nov. 2014
http://opencagedata.com@opencagedata
Thanks! Questions?