The OpenCage geocoder - geoinquiets 2 July 2015

A meta-geocoding API

Ed FreyfogleGeoinquiets - 2 July 2015

http://opencagedata.com@opencagedata

Problem

Where are we?

© OpenStreetMap contributors

41.39834, 2.12462

Barcelona!

Barcelona!

Sarrià

Barcelona!

Sarrià08017

Barcelona!

Sarrià08017

Spain

Catalonia

Jaume Piquet 23

Europe

BCN

placename long/lat

placename long/lat

forward

placename long/lat

forward

reverse

Yes!

Yes! but …T&Csexpensive at volume

OpenStreetMap

Yes!

Yes! but …not for high volume usevariable coveragehard/expensive to set up

Yes!

Yes! and …one API, many geocodersfree as in freedomdev friendly

You Geonames

and more

Open datause any map you like cache as long as you likefix itget creative

Win on dev friendliness

openclosed

easy

painful

41.39834, 2.12462

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Formatting "components" : {

"city" : "Barcelona", "city_district" : "Sarri\u00e0 - Sant Gervasi",

"community_centre" : "Casa Orlandai", "country" : "Spain",

"country_code" : "es", "county" : "BCN", "pedestrian" : "Pla\u00e7a del Xiprer", "postcode" : "08023", "state" : "Catalonia", "suburb" : "Sarri\u00e0"

},

Formatting "components" : {

"city" : "Barcelona", "city_district" : "Sarri\u00e0 - Sant Gervasi",

"community_centre" : "Casa Orlandai", "country" : "Spain",

"country_code" : "es", "county" : "BCN", "pedestrian" : "Pla\u00e7a del Xiprer", "postcode" : "08023", "state" : "Catalonia", "suburb" : "Sarri\u00e0"

},

“formatted” : "Casa Orlandai, Pla\u00e7a del Xiprer, 08023 Barcelona, Spain",

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

We need your help https://github.com/opencagedata/address-formatting

Annotationstimezones time of sunrise/sunsetgeohash, MGRS, Maidenheadwhat3wordscalling codes

OS gridrefs

What should we add?All suggestions welcome

What’s next?leave beta, announce pricingmore formatting, annotationsfeedback loop to OSM

Start geocoding:opencagedata.com

Stay [email protected]@freyfogle (gladly IRL)

Other stuff

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See you at #geomob15th July geomobldn.org@geomob

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Simplest way to communicate locations

Wearable, washable, all weather maps

Please get in touch if you are a location based service/geo start-up seeking seed funding

Ed Freyfogle@freyfogle

http://opencagedata.com@opencagedata

Thanks! Questions?