Geocodio
Data
geocoding api
SHOW HN2014
224points
101comments
#77of 2,272 in 2014
Top 4%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
16 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 58 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 4 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstPricing: 2 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Very cheap bulk pricing compared to Google
From 3 comments
I like the price point about $1/1000records. Just curious to hear how you arrived at this price point.
renegadedev on HNVery nice. Pricing is very attractive. May need to use this in the future.
martin1b on HNI think this is great. We use Google Maps for geocoding today, we paid around 10k for this years license. If you guys can do the same without the rate limiting restrictions they…
verelo on HN
Clean site and simple API design
From 2 comments
Neat website! Very clean, simple pricing. Thank you for batch geocoding to minimize network traffic... How does the accuracy (as well as address parsing capabilities) compare to…
joelverhagen on HNI really like the look of your API. I work a lot with location-based apps, I'll probably be giving this a go :)
basicallydan on HN
Objections
US addresses only, no international coverage
From 2 comments
so.. us addresses only?
jaque on HNJust for those curious, it's not that cheap actually compared to Google's enterprise level Geocoding. Nor, I'm guessing, is it able to geocode internationally. In which case you…
rubyn00bie on HN
Accuracy lower than Google in some tests
From 2 comments
I tested this website api for 2000 randomly selected home address. And it's not accurate enough. It's 4000 foot away in average to google's lat lng. This number is kinda less…
suanmeiguo on HNThanks! Yes, I haven't really seen a lot of other services that provides batch geocoding as an API endpoint. We have mostly been running tests against the Google Maps API, and…
thecodemonkey on HN
Not clearly cheaper than Google at high volume
From 2 comments
Just for those curious, it's not that cheap actually compared to Google's enterprise level Geocoding. Nor, I'm guessing, is it able to geocode internationally. In which case you…
rubyn00bie on HNCool project. Like others have said, not particularly convinced that it's cheaper than Google's enterprise geocoding, but I'm more than glad to see the competition. I wrote you…
davidcelis on HN
Requests
International country support
From 2 comments
Just for those curious, it's not that cheap actually compared to Google's enterprise level Geocoding. Nor, I'm guessing, is it able to geocode internationally. In which case you…
rubyn00bie on HNso.. us addresses only?
jaque on HN
Reverse geocoding
From 2 comments
Will your service be expanding to provide reverse geocoding? we would be interested if it did both (we need both).
carlosdaniel on HNIs there a similar service for reverse geocoding? US and international?
beagle3 on HN
Shorthand city name support
From 1 comment
Love it. I'll keep using my current service for now (SmartyStreets), but I'll let you know two things I noticed: 1) Most services will accept shortcuts for names, like "SF" for…
Jemaclus on HN
Questions
How accuracy compares to Google and open alternatives
From 2 comments
Neat website! Very clean, simple pricing. Thank you for batch geocoding to minimize network traffic... How does the accuracy (as well as address parsing capabilities) compare to…
joelverhagen on HNHow does the dataset compare to google? Would love to see some side by side comparisons.
kevingibbon on HN
Whether first 2500 are free when exceeding threshold
From 2 comments
The part I was unclear about, actually, is whether or not one is charged for the first 2500 if one were to hit that threshold.
cmaggard on HNWhere the pricing says $.001/ea for 2501+ geocodes, are the first 2500/day prior to that still free? Or am I paying $2.50 for the day as soon as I make that 1 extra request above…
matthuggins on HN
Alternatives named
Google Maps geocoding API
From 2 comments
Just for those curious, it's not that cheap actually compared to Google's enterprise level Geocoding. Nor, I'm guessing, is it able to geocode internationally. In which case you…
rubyn00bie on HNI think this is great. We use Google Maps for geocoding today, we paid around 10k for this years license. If you guys can do the same without the rate limiting restrictions they…
verelo on HN
Nominatim / OpenStreetMap
From 2 comments
Neat website! Very clean, simple pricing. Thank you for batch geocoding to minimize network traffic... How does the accuracy (as well as address parsing capabilities) compare to…
joelverhagen on HNFor an API, you can also try http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/ (which is kinda free -- and uses OpenStreetMap data). The biggest problem we've had is changing non…
lzhou on HN
Data Science Toolkit
From 2 comments
Neat website! Very clean, simple pricing. Thank you for batch geocoding to minimize network traffic... How does the accuracy (as well as address parsing capabilities) compare to…
joelverhagen on HNThis is great. Also great is Pete Warden's http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/ Street Address to Coordinates: Street Address to Location calculates the latitude/longitude…
nl on HN
SmartyStreets
From 2 comments
Love it. I'll keep using my current service for now (SmartyStreets), but I'll let you know two things I noticed: 1) Most services will accept shortcuts for names, like "SF" for…
Jemaclus on HNThis is very cool! We use SmartyStreets because of the price. Where did you get the addresses database?
vitalyny on HN
geocoder.us
From 1 comment
Also free http://geocoder.us/
chippy on HN