Article:		Hacking Maps with the Google Maps API
Subject:		Which geocoding tools to use?
Date:		2005-08-10 21:21:56
From:		angryn00b
Hari, you said that some tools will provide lat. and long. for a zip code. Which tools? And do you or anyone else have any other good recommendations for a free or cheap geocoding service? I've got a free account at geocoder.us, and I appreciate them providing it for free, but it's not very quick and it doesn't locate a large portion of street addresses + zips that I feed it. I've done a fair amount of hacking on both APIs discussed, and if someone comes out with a service combining Yahoo's API with Google's user interface, I'd be pretty happy.

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• Which geocoding tools to use?
  2005-10-05 15:16:38 dnstevenson
  
  We've got a low-cost (lower than geocoder.us) and quick geocoding service at http://www.geocodeamerica.com. If you do a zipcode only search, it will return the zipcode centroid.

  
  Dave
  http://www.geocodeamerica.com
  http://www.favoriterun.com
  
  

  • Which geocoding tools to use?
    2006-01-23 15:17:40 daxx
    
    Here's one that's totally free, uses NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas, and lets you gecode in batches instead of just one at a time:

    
    http://www.batchgeocode.com

    
    Pretty neato.
    
    

• Which geocoding tools to use?
  2005-08-11 10:52:13 emad1b
  
  Have you seen this (http://emad.fano.us/blog/?p=277) . Basically, it allows you to geocode without any knowledge of geocoding. Javascript knowledge required.
  
  

• Which geocoding tools to use?
  2005-08-11 09:03:17 EventFinder
  
  For the US - I think the USPS provides a city * zip list file?

  
  Adding my site - an event listing mashup:
  http://www.globaleventfinder.com