freyfogle

Happy to look into specific cases if you share the details: https://opencagedata.com/contact

re: Places - to my knowledge no one has a product equivalent to Google's in terms of size and freshness of the database. Sorry.

Agree!

For Maps have a look at: https://www.thunderforest.com https://stadiamaps.com

For geocoding, you can check out my business: https://opencagedata.com

We provide a worldwide geocoding API based on open data like OpenStreetMap.

Here's how we compare with Google https://opencagedata.com/reducing-your-google-geocoding-cost...

Of course happy to answer any questions you have.

surprised no one has mentioend the excellent Extremities podcast, one of the seasons was about life on and history of Pitcairn https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arrival-on-pitcairn/id...

This is the correct answer. Be less clever. Makes life much simpler for whoever has to maintain your code (which may well be you).

Here's an interview with Steve Bennett, the creator of OpenTrees, from a little more than a year ago: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/opentrees

Without having looked in detail I would guess this is a situation where no license just causes confusion. Now it's unclear what is allowed. Ideally they would be explicit about what is allowed. Anyway, if it is allowed, using that data is a decision for the local OSM community. If you live there or have a local connection, please get involved, or just with mapping generally. It's good fun. Here's a tutorial of how to add house numbers to OSM, really it is pretty simple:

https://opencagedata.com/tutorials/adding-an-address-to-open...

re: Ontario, I will eventually have a look, but the list of projects is long and priority goes to bugs reported by customers.

Hi,

thanks for the kind words.

You are right that a geocoder is only as good as the data available to it. Happily OSM is great for many use cases and getting better literally every day.

Whether it is good enough now for your use case will depend ... on your use case. Not everyone needs comprehensive house numbering in Getafe. Until the local OSM community decides to add those numbers we do the best we can for the use cases where open data is a viable option today. As an aside, I am not sure the catastro qualifies as "open" data (even if it may be public), and even if so, as you correctly note, someone with local familiarity for all the abbreviations and common usages will need to help with adding it. Local knowledge is key.

re: "Place de Gaulle", of the top of my head I couldn't say, I would have to a detailed look. It's complicated, which is what makes geo fun.

Hi,

Ed from OpenCage here, thanks for the kinds words! It's true we don't have any open positions right now. But anyone who is into geo stuff in general and geocoding specifically can dive in to OpenStreetMap and the open source libraries we (and many others) rely on and contribute to. Most notably Nominatim https://nominatim.org

Here's a podcast interview I did last summer with Sarah Hoffmann, the lead maintainer. https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-35

Can't upvote this comment enough. Have wasted years of my life on these invisible, but sadly necessary, features.

You may enjoy this start-up working on this problem, the demo is impressive. https://www.dentreality.com

yes, definitely. If you are manipulating text, Perl is great.

Here is a project to aggregate all the various open city and regional tree datasets: https://opentrees.org

Here is a service that aggregates the various public, opendata sets https://opentrees.org

thanks for the fast and reassuring answer, I appreciate it. I'll wait until that message goes away, I can't risk losing my private repos.

I currently pay for a Github Silver plan annually ($600). When I try to downgrade to Free I get a message (in red) "You will no longer be able to access your private repositories or create new private repositories."

How do I downgrade without losing all my private repos.

Thank you!

Lots of creative things could be done for that use case, the challenge is getting (and maintaining) a usable/affordable database of places.

Hi Barcelona readers

If you're into BCN geo stuff please come along to GeomobBCN - our next event is on 6th of May, details here:

https://thegeomob.com/post/may-6th-2020-geomobbcn-details

Here's a twitter thread summary of our last event in January, lots of cool maps of Barcelona: https://twitter.com/geomob/status/1217706889280217089

perlbrew works great for me, never had a reason to seek a different solution

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We are here to help if you need geocoding: https://opencagedata.com

You contributed the data so that they - and everyone else - can do what they want with it as long as they stay within the terms of the license. I don't see that they are violating the license by choosing to render that data a certain way (in this case as a black tile).

There is a company in the UK that makes something similar today: http://www.splash-maps.com

A great gift as you can centre it on your friend’s house

Hi,

co-founder of OpenCage here.

It depends heavily on what your use case is: forward or reverse, which part of the world, what level of granularity, etc. Google offers a great geocoding service, no doubt. But you also have to pay their price, and obey their terms and conditions. Their great service is overkill for many very common use cases, at least those that we see from our customers.

Anyone who wants to try us out, our demo page is here: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/demo

some other good OSM map options are:

http://www.thunderforest.com

https://stadiamaps.com

For geocoding: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com

For routing: https://www.graphhopper.com

In many parts of the world they use different alphabets - Cyrillic, Arabic, etc

Related, here's a good post on strategies for quickly becoming familiar with a new code base: http://devblog.nestoria.com/post/96541221378/7-strategies-to...

In my experience as founder of a 20 plus employee start-up, I assumed all employees would find out each other's salary. There is no way to enforce secrecy, people talk. For exactly this reason it is better to have a clear policy. Having 20 different special deals - like "I want to work one month less, but get paid less" etc - means you spend all of your time managing HR. Everyone thinks the other person's deal is better. Absolute nightmare to manage. Much better to transparently say "This is what we pay, this is what we offer in terms of benefits / flexibility (location, time off, etc). If that matches your needs, great. If not, we are not the right employer for you."

The problem is if they give you your special deal, they have to give everyone their own special deal which becomes an absolute nightmare to manage.

EU SaaS founder here. It really is not as complicated as people are making it out to be, at least for digital services (I have no experience with physical products). Use a service like Quaderno https://quaderno.io for the invoicing, they plug into Stripe. Once you get that set up it's not a big issue.

Free things go away.

If you need geocoding we're here to help: https://geocoder.opencagedata.com

If you're looking for maps, I can recommend: http://www.thunderforest.com