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Hi All, I am using openstreetmap api for fetching latitude and longitude values by providing address to the api.
I am using below format of API: I am getting values for most of the addresses all around the world. But For some addresses like one mentioned in the link i dont get lat/lon values. Initially i was using the below format of Api. But it was also have issue with some of the addresses so i switch to this format of API. Can someone please help which is the best way to get lat/lon values for all addresses using openstreetmap? Thanks Umesh Tayade |
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You can't get something out of the database that wasn't in there to start with. Unfortunately, the maps for anything except the core of the larger metropolitan regions in Brazil are very poor, and the thing that is lacking the most are the street names. It has shown some improvement in the last year, but still very poor. I contribute data solely inside Brazil (mostly São Paulo) and I find that most small cities outside São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro have nothing but the street traced, if even this. For the street numbering, the situation cannot be described as anything but "terrible". For ZIP/Postal Codes, the same. Some tips:
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Slightly OT: thanks to MCPicoli to working on adding data in Brazil. I think it it s important to realize that building a geodatabase/map of the whole world takes time and that we are doing this a lot faster than our competitors did, even our flagship regions took years to get to the state they are now in. As MCPicoli points out, in the days of widely available areial imagery getting road geometry is relatively cheap, but doesn't replace the need to have and build local communities that add the meta data (street names etc) that make the geometry data so much more useful.
(01 Nov '13, 08:02)
SimonPoole ♦
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