Comments on: Map Service APIs

By: dwgold

dwgold — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:36:42 +0000

USC has developed a new site for geocoding address data which is free, secure, accurate, and located at https://webgis.usc.edu - The site can process uploaded databases (access, csv, text delimited) or single ones. It does deterministic address parsing and normalization too.

By: google geocoding parse

google geocoding parse — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:32:12 +0000

i tried the automated geocoding parse and it works up until about 350th request/response.
then google sees there is no way one person requested 350 maps in 2 minutes and stops allowing the requests.
im going to add a sleep timer in my script to spread out the requests, but this most likely wont work either.
just going to have to buy a geocode dbase with address correction built into the API.

anyone know of any good geocoding services?
geocoder.us is 2 slow most of the time and has downtime, i was hoping for a local dbase with a good api.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:19:19 +0000

Would someone be willing to help me with a small project I am working on? I would like to connect a GPS unit to my Soekris board and use the data on a Yahoo Map using the API? I would be willing to pay for the assistance.

Thanks,

Mike Chapman

By: paolo

paolo — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:25:41 +0000

What about creating real playable games on google maps? http://moloko.itc.it/trustmetricswiki/moin.cgi/GamesOnGoogleMaps

Check the code for “animated invasion of Microsoft Redmond office by gnus and mozilla”, if you like.
http://sra.itc.it/people/massa/private/gmaps/gmaps_hack.html

Or read the blog post:
http://moloko.itc.it/paoloblog/archives/2005/07/01/animated_invasion_over_google_map.html

By: macewan

macewan — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:25:53 +0000

Unfort*, earthdotgoogle is Windows only from what I can tell. Shame it isn’t a flashapp like the Flickr album.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 16:33:35 +0000

Something that looks promising is the new (Not released yet) http://earth.google.com. This looks very impressive.

By: Phosphorous

Phosphorous — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:04:13 +0000

You can also use google maps to do geocoding. It isn’t documented, but it works. You will have to do some parsing to get the information.

Here is how to get the geocoded information:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12345 anywhere st, anycity CA 99999&output=js

The resulting geocoded info is sent back in a span tag.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:20:48 +0000

Well I almost have my moblog hack working to show my location on Google maps, using http://geocoder.us and the Google Maps API, I’m just waiting on advice from the wp-hacker gurus for a way to get the Javascript needed through to the post somehow as at the moment it is geting escaped and borked as a result.

Everything else works though, it gets the lat & long from geocoder.us, and then requests the map from Google (well it would do if the script came through correctly). Once I have it working and have cleaned it up some I’ll post the code.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:03:44 +0000

Playing is fun. For a look at mix matching Flickr and Google API, with EXIF and other metadata, check out this page, go to bottom, and click link for photo details.

This isn’t Wordform specific. All of this is being made into WordPress plugins.

BTW — watch out for the Google API Key — it’s subdirectory specific right now.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:58:43 +0000

You should check out http://geocoder.us/help/ for the geocoding, would be less of a hassle than going through Yahoo.

Next time I’m bored I’m going to hack something together using the Google Maps API, that geocoder and my moblogging script to map where I’m blogging from. Unfortunately without GPS in my phone though I’ll have to type the address in the email. A totally useless thing to do but hey it will be fun.