http://www.ioncannon.net/gis/43/gis-geocoding-experiments/ Thoughts on Software Development and Engineering Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:35:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.ioncannon.net/gis/43/gis-geocoding-experiments/comment-page-1/#comment-7 IONCANNON » Good Techcrunch review of mapping apis Sat, 08 Jul 2006 10:53:18 +0000 http://www.ioncannon.net/uncategorized/43/gis-geocoding-experiments/#comment-7 [...] Techcrunch has a good review by Frank Gruber of the look and feel of mapping services. I think it is notable that ESRI’s service is not included in the review. I think it is at least as good as the mapquest service. I may have to find time to redo my review of the acuracy of each again and a more technical evaluation of each. [...] [...] Techcrunch has a good review by Frank Gruber of the look and feel of mapping services. I think it is notable that ESRI's service is not included in the review. I think it is at least as good as the mapquest service. I may have to find time to redo my review of the acuracy of each again and a more technical evaluation of each. [...]

]]> http://www.ioncannon.net/gis/43/gis-geocoding-experiments/comment-page-1/#comment-5 IONCANNON » Free geocoding Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:38:04 +0000 http://www.ioncannon.net/uncategorized/43/gis-geocoding-experiments/#comment-5 [...] I’ve had opertunities to work with a number of different GIS packages in the past (see my post comparing a few). Most of them are great but they all cost a lot of money to use. If you trying to get your feet wet and don’t want to spend money on one of the real services there are a number of places where you can start like yahoo or ESRI. These free services however have strict rules about using them for any commercial venture. So if you wanted to do geocoding for something that you charge for you need something else. [...] [...] I've had opertunities to work with a number of different GIS packages in the past (see my post comparing a few). Most of them are great but they all cost a lot of money to use. If you trying to get your feet wet and don't want to spend money on one of the real services there are a number of places where you can start like yahoo or ESRI. These free services however have strict rules about using them for any commercial venture. So if you wanted to do geocoding for something that you charge for you need something else. [...]

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