Beginning Google Maps Applications

Yesterday Google Maps Mania announced that New Zealand and Australia now had address searching on maps.google.com. Last night I started drafting a post that suggested that geocoding for these two countries couldn’t be too far behind. Well, before I could even press “publish” Google announced exactly that.
The examples in Chapter 4 will work perfectly well […]

Just a quick post to let you know that we’ve added some links to some reverse geocoding services on the geocoders page.
Request for Help: Anyone with a handheld GPS device is encouraged to contact us if they are interested in helping with an experiment requiring worldwide participation. There will probably be a free book or […]

Our editor, Jason Gilmore, has written two excellent articles (1 and 2) about using perl’s Geo::Coder::US module to build a home-grown geocoder. It uses the TIGER/Line data and the code behind the Geocoder.us service to build something very quickly and robustly.
These articles inspired Chapter 11 of our new book, so they get a BIG thank […]

This is just a quick post to warn everyone that Google’s geocoder has a strict rate-limiting “feature”. You can do up to 50,000 lookups per day as we reported earlier, but that number can only be achieved if you request one geocode every 1.75 seconds consistently throughout the day. Exceeding this threshold for more than […]

Yesterday Google announced that they were releasing a geocoding solution during their Geo Developer Day! We’re as excited as you are and we’re going to scramble to include as much information as possible about it in the book before it goes to print in a month and a half. For everything we miss or that […]