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Re:LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service by thecodemonkey on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:33AM (#11938269)
Hi Tim. Mathias from geocod.io here. Can you please drop us a line at hello AT geocod.io would love to look into what happened there.

We're using Tiger/Line and Rooftop-level (through OpenAddresses) datasets under the hood. We do not use OSM as it's generally not optimized for geocoding.

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Re:LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service by maxerickson on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:46AM (#11938351)
It's a little odd to mention Tiger/Line and optimized for geocoding in the same sentence. Tiger/Line is specifically obscured to protect the anonymity of individuals that live in low density areas. It's de-optimized for geocoding before it is published for public access. It seems pretty likely that's the issue above.

Of course OSM is not a great source of addresses either, as it simply doesn't have data for so many regions.

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