[Imports] Importing a list of (business) locations?

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Wed Nov 25 18:54:27 GMT 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Mark Gray <mark-imports at vatavia.net> wrote:
> I imagine some companies have a shape file, but others will just
> have addresses and not have Lat/Lon. Is there a geocoder we are
> allowed to use? Perhaps we need to wait till we can geocode
> addresses ourselves? Perhaps we cannot even use their lat/lon if
> they have them because they may come from a geocoder we can't use.

Within the US, you could use TIGER.

IMO something semi-automated would be better, though.  Someone should
take a look at each point (and probably reposition it) before it goes
into the database.  A database which facilitates that would be great.
OpenYellowPages :).




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