While working on a mapping project, I learned that the Google Maps API now offers geocoding. This is huge. I’m not sure if it was ever announced, but Google geocoding is there!
Until this recent discovery, I used either Batch Geocode or Yahoo! for geocoding. So in order to use Google Maps, I’d geocode the data with one of these options, then feed it to Google. It worked, but it wasn’t the slickest solution. With Yahoo there are also a few usage restrictions that prevented use for commercial apps.
Geocoding Options
In searching for Google’s announcement on this (which I never found), I did find that people were using as many workarounds as I have.
All of these appear to be working great. But now that Google Maps has their geocoding in place… Forget the hacks and get geocoding.
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