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Joost Rooijmans


Hi, I realy like what you have done with the Google Maps API... I'm playing around with the API myself, but I haven't been able to find a good geocoder... Where do/did you pull your data from?

permalink written by  rooymans on January 8, 2006


The location data is based on the free dataset available from Geonames. It's gone through some thorough scrubbing and been crashed against a couple other city databases to sort out the major cities from the minor ones. The free data was really not all that good, and had hundreds of bad entries. A lot of the cleanup had to be done by hand, so I think if I had it to do over again, I probably would have shelled out the $1000 for data from Meridian or another commercial provider.

Jason

permalink written by  Jason Kester on January 13, 2006

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