[Geocoding] Using Nominatim to geocode Toronto addresses

Stewart C. Russell scruss at gmail.com
Wed May 29 01:36:04 UTC 2013


On 13-05-28 04:36 PM, Brian Quinion wrote:
> 
> However 2 of your examples work fine which makes me think you have
> other problems as well

Yes, thanks; the main one being I assumed that Geopy's OpenMapQuest
geocoder was ready for prime time. It's not.

Rolling my own in Perl using LWP and JSON::XS, and doing some very
simple address cleaning, got the results I needed. Three out of the
thirteen that Nominatim couldn't match were because of info not in OSM
(fixed now!), and the other ten were typos for otherwise good addresses.

Thanks!

 Stewart




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