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Re:The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google ... by rmc on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @08:33AM (#8722572)
OSM is just a data base. People have made geocoding that uses the OSM database. You can install it yourself (e.g. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim ) or use a hosted version ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Search_engines )

The advantage of OSM, is that if it's not returning the right data, you can fix it, and import it into your own hosted version.

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