A meta-geocoding API

Ed Freyfogle#WhereBerlin - 14 Nov. 2014

http://opencagedata.com@opencagedata

- based in London- 20 employees- since 2006

- residential real estate search engine- 9 countries- process 20M listings / day- 4M users / month

You Geonames

and more

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 (annotations, etc)

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

Win on dev friendliness

52.54448,13.35322

Formatting "components" : {

"city_district" : "Mitte", "country" : "Germany", "country_code" : "de", "house_number" : “10”, "neighbourhood" : "Sprengelkiez", "postcode" : "13353", "road" : "Luxemburger Straße", "state" : "Berlin", "suburb" : "Wedding" },

Formatting "components" : {

"city_district" : "Mitte", "country" : "Germany", "country_code" : "de", "house_number" : “10”, "neighbourhood" : "Sprengelkiez", "postcode" : "13353", "road" : "Luxemburger Straße", "state" : "Berlin", "suburb" : "Wedding" },

“formatted” : "Luxemburger Straße 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany",

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/lokku/address-formatting

Annotationstimezones OS gridrefs geohash, MGRS, Maidenheadwhat3wordscalling codes

time of sunrise/sunset

Win on dev friendliness

Start geocoding:opencagedata.com

What’s next?leave beta, start chargingmore formatting, annotationsdedupefeedback to OSM

Like geo and in London?

See you at #geomob13th Jan geomobldn.org

Ed Freyfogle#WhereBerlin - 14 Nov. 2014

http://opencagedata.com@opencagedata

Thanks! Questions?