[OSM-newbies] Looking up location based on address (geocoding)?

[John McKerrell]

Hi

There are some possibilities using OSM data but I'm not well versed on them
so I'll let someone else tell you them. You might like to try the Multimap API
as it offers a geocoding web service. There are no hard limits on transactions
(but please read and understand the terms if you do go with it) and you can
sign up for free. We're also the only people offering free UK postcode lookups
as far as I know (if that's any use to you :) Go here for more info:

http://www.multimap.com/openapidocs/1.2/
http://www.multimap.com/openapi/

And here to signup:

http://www.multimap.com/openapi/signup/

John

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:38:49PM -0400, Andre-John Mas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to write a program that would provide some geographic based  
> information, based on an address. Basically given an address it would  
> give me longitude and latitude and with that location I could display  
> information about the location. I have looked at using Google Maps  
> API, but I don't want to limit myself to the number of requests per  
> day that it allows. Does anyone have a program that would allow me to  
> use open street map for Geocoding? Also, does anyone know of any  
> commercial solutions for geocody, preferbly that I could host on my  
> own servers.
> 
> Andre
> 
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