Google geocoding API

[Marcelo]

Hello Everybody,

I just started to implement OpenTripPlanner in my hometown, Curitiba,
Brazil. I would like to implement geocoding here. Unfortunately, as
many of you commented on other e-mails, openaddresses' database is not
so populated for some cities (around 5 locations in my city). My
question is, do any of you know about any implementation using Google
geocoding API?

Thank you,

Marcelo

[Frank Purcell]

Hi Marcelo,

In the US, the Google geocoder is top-notch, and I'd love to use it for
OTP. But there is a big restriction on its use though, ala "the
Geocoding API may only be used in conjunction with a Google map;
geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited."
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

That said, I'm guessing that Google's intent is more to thwart bulk
geocoding, etc... (and I doubt old-man google would care much about a
transit map with a non-google basemap). Sadly, with no seeming
exception process to that API/GMaps restriction, I will continue to
avoid using the Google geocoder api though.

Take care,
Frank

[David Turner]

I think it is possible to use Google's tiles with OTP, so you could use
Google's geocoder that way. IIRC, we have an implementation with
Yahoo's geocoder in svn already.

[Vivien Deparday]

Hello Marcelo,
If you use the trunk version, there is a project called
opentripplanner-geocoder that has an implementation for Google and Yahoo
geocoder. However, if you use one of those, there are licensing
restrictions. I am not sure what all the restrictions are but I think
you have at least to plot the results on their map so you would have to
use their map as a base map.

Cheers,

Viv

[Marcelo Chulek]

Hello once again,

I am trying to get opentripplanner-geocoder up and running.

Could you please give me some basic instructions about how I can configure it?

The other modules are working properly and I can already see OTP running on my city, Curitiba.

Thanks in advance,

Marcelo

2011/2/26 Vivien Deparday <vivien....@gmail.com>

[Marcelo Chulek]

I have activated the geocoder option in the config.js file as shown:



However, when I restart the server I can't see the fields FROM and TO.

Thanks,

Marcelo
 

2011/3/1 Marcelo Chulek <marcelo...@gmail.com>

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[Vivien Deparday]

Hi Marcelo,
You have to comment out the line ' fromToOverride....' because this is overriding  the html of "from and to" text input.
Also, if I remember well, the opentriplanner-geocoder project is not added automatically by default so you have to add it to your eclipse project manually or if you compile with maven in command line you should add the project as a module in the pom.xml
You should also double check the url parameter in your config.js. You may need to change that to "/opentripplanner-geocoder/geocode" depending on the name of the project.

Cheers,

Viv

[Carlos]

Hi, i solved too about opentripplanner-webapp, but if i want StartLocation and EndLocation using Leaflet-client ?

I write in config.js

geocoders : {

    url : "http://localhost:8080/opentripplanner-geocoder/geocode",  

    addressParam : "address",

},

but this not works