As for the software used with http://geocoder.us, I found this was the license for the PERL module:
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE > Copyright (C) 2004 by Schuyler Erle and Jo Walsh > This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your > option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. Not sure if this helps, but it might be able to extend the conversation. ************************************************************** Joshua Finnie Central Connecticut State University Masters of Science in Geography 24 Park Pl Apt B8H Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 716-5996 ************************************************************** On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:04 PM, David ``Smith'' <vidthe...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson <palmerstat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > released under the Freedom of Information Act. There are 20 Excel files > > ranging from 14,000 to 65,000 lines in length each and it looks like they > do > > have all the locations. I thought it would be a good project for me to > > extract/clean up the data and geocode it for upload (only addresses are > > given in the files) and so would like to first seek feedback from the > > community before proceeding especially with regards to licensing, tagging > > and geocoding. > > > > ==== GEOCODING: ==== > > > > -Can anyone recommend a geocoding service (that is, translating an > address > > to latitude/longitude) preferably free or very cheap. Only one I've found > is > > http://geocoder.us (since I can't use Yahoo's or Google's without using > them > > on one of their maps), but I can only send one request per 15 seconds and > so > > it will take weeks (since I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars). > > Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? I'm pretty sure all > of these geocoding services, free or otherwise, are only "free beer" > and not compatible with OSM's open license, unless the geocoding data > itself is open-license or public domain (such as TIGER). Wouldn't use > of a commercial geocoding service to import POIs taint the OSM data? > Maybe not if the original address were not present in the tagging but > still... > > -- > David "Smith" > a.k.a. Vid the Kid > a.k.a. Bír'd'in > > Does this font make me look fat? > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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