Geocoding Etc.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Google Serves up Geocoding, including Europe and Japan

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. We will have to see if Yahoo will have an answer, but in the meantime I think I will try to cobble together an interface to this so that international users can get the batch geocoding goodness themselves.

posted by pkh at 2:16 PM

11 Comments:

  • The downside is that their geocoder doesn't return a precision identifier (like Yahoo's).

    I'm capturing data on addresses in my area, but knowing whether the lat/long values are for the specific address, street, city, or state is quite helpful in deciding what to plot and what might be out of bounds.

    By Blogger Matt, at 3:11 PM  

  • Any idea why Google and Yahoo would return different values through their geocoding software?

    Address 1
    Y: -118.083632, 34.752946
    G: -118.083851, 34.711528

    Address 2
    Y: -118.450808, 34.411576
    G: -118.570776, 34.433876

    These are pretty significant differences...

    By Blogger Matt, at 6:49 PM  

  • I cannot find where to post a new comment. I just found the geocoder today and it's great. Does anyone know if there is a way to display different colors for different plot points on the same map? I need to see about 100 locations in which some should be one color and some should be another color. Can I add a column on the excel file before pasting into the input section that will change the color of different points?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:35 AM  

  • thank you thank you thank you. i'm a total google earth newb, but i just used your tool to geocode 244 addresses that normally would have taken me several very boring days, and i now have a nice kml file of all the heritage trees in portland, oregon. i'll share it at google earth hacks shortly.

    you rock!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:14 PM  

  • I would like to geocode locations in germany but there is no option to set the country so the site gives me the cities in the usa

    how can i choose the city?

    peter

    By Blogger peter, at 6:39 AM  

  • hello Geocode! i used your mapping tool to map out 150 points of intrest and i was wondering if there is a way to print out large map of everything i tagged.. all POI are in one state, what i would like to do it print out a regular road map sized map, using multiple sheets of legal sized paper or regular sized paper, is there a way to do it?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:11 AM  

  • Peter, I struggled with geocoding in Europe, too, and eventually found out you need to put city name (e.g. Berlin) into 'Address' field and country name (e.g. Germany) into 'State' field - it worked fine afterwards.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 3:54 PM  

  • thanks for the hint!

    for me it also worked if you just put "state" as the country and then you can alos use the exact adress!

    By Blogger peter, at 2:39 PM  

  • I'm also trying to get coordinates from europe. For me it doesn't work if I use the given solution by peter. I get only unexact coordinates of the middle of the city (eg. berlin Lat. 52.52 Lon. 13.38 for all importet streets within berlin).

    is there a way to fix it?

    By Anonymous estefano, at 1:57 AM  

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    By Blogger pkh, at 7:42 AM  

  • It is not clear if the batch geocoder is working too for european adresse ?

    It is difficult to understand the structure of the input file to geocode in Europe. Anyone could give some help ?

    Many thanks

    By Anonymous Paul, at 10:55 AM  

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