[Talk-us] Uploading all Post Office Drop Box locations in the US

[Brad Neuhauser]

geocoder.us does use TIGER lines [1], which should also clarify the
limits of the service (as they do in their FAQ)

[1] http://geocoder.us/help/faq.shtml

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Joshua Finnie <joshua.finnie at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for the software used with http://geocoder.us, I found this was the
> license for the PERL module:
>
>> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2004 by Schuyler Erle and Jo Walsh
>>
>> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>> under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your
>> option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
>
> Not sure if this helps, but it might be able to extend the conversation.
>
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>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:04 PM, David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirk Ireson <palmerstation at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > released under the Freedom of Information Act.  There are 20 Excel files
>> > ranging from 14,000 to 65,000 lines in length each and it looks like
>> > they do
>> > have all the locations.  I thought it would be a good project for me to
>> > extract/clean up the data and geocode it for upload (only addresses are
>> > given in the files) and so would like to first seek feedback from the
>> > community before proceeding especially with regards to licensing,
>> > tagging
>> > and geocoding.
>> >
>> > ==== GEOCODING: ====
>> >
>> > -Can anyone recommend a geocoding service (that is, translating an
>> > address
>> > to latitude/longitude) preferably free or very cheap. Only one I've
>> > found is
>> > http://geocoder.us (since I can't use Yahoo's or Google's without using
>> > them
>> > on one of their maps), but I can only send one request per 15 seconds
>> > and so
>> > it will take weeks (since I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars).
>>
>> Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?  I'm pretty sure all
>> of these geocoding services, free or otherwise, are only "free beer"
>> and not compatible with OSM's open license, unless the geocoding data
>> itself is open-license or public domain (such as TIGER).  Wouldn't use
>> of a commercial geocoding service to import POIs taint the OSM data?
>> Maybe not if the original address were not present in the tagging but
>> still...
>>
>> --
>> David "Smith"
>> a.k.a. Vid the Kid
>> a.k.a. Bír'd'in
>>
>> Does this font make me look fat?
>>
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