Hi, Do you know cartociudad project, from spanish IGN?
It have web services related with spanish street map, and one of this is geocoding service: http://www.cartociudad.es/portal/pdf/CARTOCIUDAD_Direcciones.pdf Best regards On 4 February 2011 21:27, JP Glutting <jpglutt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Wladimir, > > That is sort of what I thought. Too bad. I was just in Barcelona yesterday, > at the CSIC, to get data. Where do you work? > > I am on the geoinquiets list too, but I am afraid I am on so many lists and > in so many projects that I don't keep close track of them all. I should hop > over and introduce myself, though. > > Fins aviat, > JP > > Public Health - GIS - Bioinformatics > http://www.bmeisis.com > <http://www.bmeisis.com/>http://www.jpglutting.com > > > > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Wladimir Szczerban <bolo...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi JP, >> >> I live in Barcelona and unfortunately there is no open geocoding service >> in Barcelona. In the group of geoinquietos (http://www.geoinquiets.cat/ >> or http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Geoinquiets_Barcelona) we are trying to get >> the ICC (http://www.icc.cat/) the official agency open the geocoding >> service they have. >> >> Cheers, >> BOLO >> >> 2011/2/4 Stark Hans-Jörg <hansjoerg.st...@fhnw.ch> >> >> Any initiative for OA is appreciated highly ;o) >>> >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> hj >>> >>> >>> >>> *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: >>> discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting >>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 16:17 >>> >>> *An:* OSGeo Discussions >>> *Betreff:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding >>> >>> >>> >>> There might be a data sharing initiative, there are several different >>> actors (city, regional government, etc.). I don't know all of what there is >>> out there, and the data was originally collected for another project. >>> >>> >>> >>> I think I will be Ok with Yahoo. If it works out, it shouldn't be >>> difficult to export the dataset for openaddresses. It isn't my data, though, >>> so I will have to ask permission first. It seems like a good idea, though. >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> JP >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Stark Hans-Jörg <hansjoerg.st...@fhnw.ch> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: >>> discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting >>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 15:34 >>> >>> >>> *An:* OSGeo Discussions >>> *Betreff:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Hans-Jörg, >>> >>> >>> >>> I am not aware that Barcelona (the city?) has a very open geodata >>> strategy, but that certainly would be nice. If you know of anyone in the >>> area who might know more, I am more than willing to contact them. >>> >>> *[shj] my mistake. I thought I had read something on this some time ago. >>> Maybe also because Spain has strong support in the FOSS domain.* >>> >>> >>> >>> I have the addresses, do you mean the coordinates? The address format is >>> not ideal, but I am pretty happy with them, as they seem to geocode well in >>> the tests I have done. >>> >>> *[shj] yes, addresses along with co-ordinates.* >>> >>> >>> >>> The Yahoo API allows geocoding of 50k addresses a day, which is plenty >>> for what I need. I am going to try to use that. >>> >>> *[shj] that’ll certainly do.* >>> >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> JP >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Stark Hans-Jörg <hansjoerg.st...@fhnw.ch> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi JP >>> >>> >>> >>> Barcelona is unfortunately not well covered yet in OA. But I thought that >>> Spain has a very “open” strategy in terms of providing geodata. If you >>> manage to get Barcelona addresses (perhaps from council or any other >>> “official body”) the OA team will insert these into OA and then you can use >>> the REST service. >>> >>> >>> >>> Good luck! >>> >>> -hj >>> >>> >>> >>> *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: >>> discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting >>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 15:24 >>> *An:* OSGeo Discussions >>> *Betreff:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for all the responses! I will track them all down and see how they >>> work. >>> >>> >>> >>> Stark, I have 146,472 addresses in the city of Barcelona. Many of them >>> are duplicates, but at the very least I have 31,514 that need to be coded, >>> although that would leave out many that I want to use. I am in the process >>> of developing filters to clean out apartment numbers, etc., to be able to >>> pull a single coordinate for a whole set of addresses, and there are at >>> least 6,000 that are invalid (from the original 146k, so 140k). It is a lot. >>> I will take a look at openaddresses and do some testing. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> JP >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Stark Hans-Jörg <hansjoerg.st...@fhnw.ch> >>> wrote: >>> >>> The OpenAddresses project (www.openaddresses.org) is supposed to solve >>> exactly your problem. >>> >>> You can use the provided geocoding services ( >>> http://code.google.com/p/openaddresses/wiki/RESTService) >>> >>> >>> >>> OpenAddresses has some regions where data was donated – there you will >>> get high-quality results. Unfortunately this is not yet globally available… >>> >>> >>> >>> Hth >>> >>> -hj >>> >>> >>> >>> *Von:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto: >>> discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *Im Auftrag von *JP Glutting >>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 4. Februar 2011 14:34 >>> *An:* discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> *Betreff:* [OSGeo-Discuss] Batch geocoding >>> >>> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> I have a large set of addresses (around 150k) that I need to geocode for >>> a study (my Masters thesis on heat-related mortality). I am looking into >>> different solutions, but I can't find anything that seems like it would work >>> properly. >>> >>> >>> >>> I could script a solution using Google's map API, but there is a limit of >>> 2,500 addreses per day (I can get around them with a little patience). >>> >>> >>> >>> Right now the best solution I am looking at geopy for geocoding addresses >>> (http://code.google.com/p/geopy/). It seems like a good system, I think >>> I can use it to pull addresses out of my database and write back >>> coordinates. There is one thing that I am not sure, about, though, is >>> whether I am actually allowed to use the Google API without my use being >>> liked to a specific web page. The terms of service and form for getting a >>> Google API key require a URL linked to a Google account. In fact, it looks >>> like the API can only be used through a web site: >>> >>> >>> >>> "5.2 *Account Key*. After supplying Google with your account information >>> and the URL of your Maps API Implementation, and accepting the Terms, you >>> will be issued an alphanumeric key assigned to you by Google that is >>> uniquely associated with your Google Account and the URL of your Maps API >>> Implementation. Your Maps API Implementation must import the Google Maps >>> APIs using this key as described in the Maps APIs >>> Documentation<http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/>, >>> and Google will block requests with an invalid key or invalid URL. You may >>> only obtain and use a key in accordance with these Terms and the Maps >>> APIs Documentation <http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/>." >>> >>> >>> >>> So it looks like I can't even get it to work without a URL. >>> >>> >>> >>> I can always write a script that loops through results extracted from the >>> database, creates URLs and parses the XML results one at a time, but that >>> seems like a fairly inelegant solution. >>> >>> >>> >>> Does anyone have any good ideas about how to geocode a few thousand >>> addresses? >>> >>> >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> JP >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- Alvaro Zabala Ordóñez azabala[en]gmail[punto]com alvaro.zabala[en]juntadeandalucia[punto]es Tlf: 954 995 572 Gabinete de Normalización y Calidad Servicio de Coordinación y Desarrollo de Sistemas Horizontales. 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