Re:LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service
by maxerickson on Monday June 20, 2016 @09:21AM
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Variety is a good thing.
Make sure to pay close attention. MapQuest recently announced that they are going to discontinue their direct access OSM tile offering:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-June/076...
This is part of a ongoing reorganization of their offerings, it wouldn't be surprising if they flipped the switch on their other open data stuff.
Re:LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service
by nachtigall on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:19AM
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Jeez, I had no idea that MapQuest will kill their free access. Thanks so much for sharing.
Re:LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service
by gopi_ar on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:19PM
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This is actually why we had to setup our own servers in the first place!
Re:LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service
by buro9 on Monday June 20, 2016 @04:07PM
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Would you consider adjustments so that subjectively the most important place is returned?
i.e. the London example I gave.
Re:LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service
by buro9 on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:45PM
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Cool, that's the missing bit of info I needed.
Today I use the MapQuest API, and it's been stable and fine for the 2+ years I've used it, and the search has always been very good, intuitively selecting the right entity... i.e. London, UK rather than London, OT, and finding the right lat:lon for pubs and not getting confused by other places with similar names.