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I need to use geocoding service for my database (from city and street get coords)

Google - OK:

http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/articles-phpsqlgeocode/phpsqlgeocode_xml.php

but

Note: the geocoding service may only be used in conjunction with a Google map; geocoding results without displaying them on a map is prohibited. For complete details on allowed usage, consult the Maps API Terms of Service License Restrictions.

http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/index.html

This service works properly only for city, but not for streets:

no records found in geonames database, showing yahoo geocoder first result

How can I (without license violations) get coords with street-precision?

Yahoo allowed it?

geonames does not offer geocoding services on street level.

Marc

marc wrote:

geonames does not offer geocoding services on street level.

Marc

what kind of (payable) alternative can be offered in this case?

Hi

Openstreetmap provides streets informations

You can have a look at gisgraphy. It mix Openstreetmap and Geonames datasets. You can install it by your own or use the free services for non commercial use

Hope it helps
David

Openstreetmap provides streets informations

Do you mean
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Nominatim

?

hi

i try to be clearer :

->nominatim is a webservice based on the openstreetmap dataset.
->openstreetmap provides streets informations that you can download and use it.

->Gisgraphy is a framework that provides an importer for the Openstreetmap and Geonames datasets and provides geocoding / reverse geocoding / findnearby webservices. you can use the free services hosted by gisgraphy or install it on your own server.

hope it is clearer

David