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Batch Geocoding for Europe via Yahoo! REST Geocoding Engine
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Via Spatially Adjusted, I learned the BatchGeocode.com free tool now supports European countries: "Yahoo Maps Added Recently added support for geocoding in Europe. Now you can geocode and get map coordinates for these countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and Italy. [other countries have limited support, see the blog entry]" See the previous story on BatchGeocode.com and other related stories below.
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Free Batch Geocoding Service 4 comments
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Phillip Holmstrand writes "I put together something that will allow anyone to run batch geocoding right from their web browser for free. It uses Yahoo's REST Geocoding engine, which will allow for up to 50,000 geocodes per day. The unique piece is that I have put it together so you can basically copy/paste straight from a spreadsheet into the tool to geocode. The results can then be copy/pasted right back into Excel for further use or imported into a database. It also plots the first 100 points on a map."
Google Offers Geocoding
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The Batch Geocoding blog tells us Google now offer batch geocoding too. From the blog: "Well Google has unleashed their own geocoding service, with a 50,000 per key per day limit. They are even offering up street level geocoding in several countries in Europe and Asia."
GeoNames Does Geocoding for Microsoft's Popfly
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The Geonames blog informs us the new Popfly mashup tool uses Geonames for geocoding. From the blog: " Popfly is kind of a foolproof, slick version of Yahoo! pipes based on the Silverlight browser plugin. For geocoding there is a predefined block GeoNames to access geonames.org web services."
OpenGeocoding.org
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I recently stumbled onto the OpenGeocoding.org website: "What?
This site contains two applications. One is submitting the address and another one is geocoding application. The geocoding application will retrieved the information about the address either from database or from Google Maps.
This site offers geocoding service for users and offers several output format.
Why?
The attempts to create an open source server hosting geocoded addresses which could be retrieved through querying them have even been very scarce.
This site offer free geocoding, implement gathering data by and for community and independent from commercial solution." I copied below a few related tools previously discussed.
New Geocode Format with Short URL Service
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Anonymous Voxel writes "A new geocoding format and a web service which explores it have been made public yesterday at geohash.org.
According to the Wikipedia article, Geohashes offer properties like arbitrary precision, similar prefixes for nearby positions, and the possibility of gradually removing characters from the end of the code to reduce its size (and gradually lose precision). The algorithm has been put in the public domain, which is interesting, as Microsoft holds a patent on an algorithm with similar purposes." Added a few geocoding services below in related stories.
According to the Wikipedia article, Geohashes offer properties like arbitrary precision, similar prefixes for nearby positions, and the possibility of gradually removing characters from the end of the code to reduce its size (and gradually lose precision). The algorithm has been put in the public domain, which is interesting, as Microsoft holds a patent on an algorithm with similar purposes." Added a few geocoding services below in related stories.
Application Domains: DTS Virtual Earth/AGS/REST Code Dojo
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Chris Spagnuolo writes "If you're interested in the kinds of GIS development we've been playing around with lately here at DTS, you can check out our new site, the DTS Dojo. We've put up a bunch of web GIS demos that we've developed, including a very cool Virtual Earth demo of some work we just did for National Geographic. We'll be adding more samples soon, but check it out, there's lot's of good stuff up there already including ArcGIS Server, Virtual Earth and REST API demos." Chris was the one behind the Agile GIS survey. REST and GIS was a hot topic last year, see some related stories below.
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