Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ...
by aldr on Monday December 08, 2014 @11:11PM
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Have you tried the mapquest open data api? http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open/geocoding-se...
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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ...
by lobster_johnson on Monday December 08, 2014 @11:56PM
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Unfortunately it does not return the bounds of the matched feature. We use this to determine if results are accurate enough, by measuring the area of the bounds; for example, if the match is a long road (not a numbered street address), it makes no sense to use the latlng because it's quite obviously too imprecise; but if the road is quite short (less than 100m, say), it's acceptable to us. It's such an obvious feature to provide a geocoding API that I don't know why only Google does it.