Geocoding using Nominatim

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I just shared this with another group but it is highly relevant to most of the groups involved this time around.

This is a fairly simple and straightforward matter once you have addresses you want to look up:

http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=129%20W%2053rd%20Ave%20Anchorage%20AK&addressdetails=1&format=json

That will give you a lat and long for 129 W 53rd Ave, Anchorage AK.

More documentation here:  http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

For a faster and less limited Nominatim server.. use http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/search which is offered by MapQuest and is VERY fast and uses the same data.

You can do reverse geocoding as well given a pair of lat and long.  The documentation covers this as well.

- Shane

[Alicia Busick]

That's really cool!