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Geocoding is a method to assign spatial coordinates - like longitude and latitude on the Earth's surface - to a data record or object which represents an address or other geographic data.

Geocoding is a method to assign spatial coordinates - like longitude and latitude on the Earth's surface - to a data record or object which represents an address or other geographic data.

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VBA Programing with Google Geocoding API

For all those lovers of MSFT Products this one is probably super easy, but VBA is not my forte and I'm trying to work with the resources I have... so let's make this a learning opportunity! I'm using a Google Geocoding API to deliver on a list of…
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Extract json array data using javascript

I would like to obtain the formatted_address from the json data returned from the following query string by using javascript. http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=44.4647452,7.3553838&sensor=true function…
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How to get results based upon latitude and longitude and multiple distance ranges in Rails

I have a events model and its geo coded properly and I am using Geocode gem. I have latitude and longitude for a current location(Assume latitude= 12.9716 and longitude=77.209) and I want to get all the events within a range of 10km to 25km. So…
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Google maps geocoding API address correction hierarchy

I'm trying to understand in what order and what precedence the geocoding API takes when processing the pieces of the address that was passed to it. I have this example of why I'm asking the question. The correct address is: 2608 N Ocean Bv Myrtle…
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geocoder.geocode callback is never called in ionic cordova

I have a ionic/cordova android project where I try to fetch the location for some coordinates inside a service; maps sdk is loaded alright and in my service, I have the following: var lat = 30; // example var lng = 32; // example var geocoder =…
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Restrict MapBox geocoding

I saw that MapBox provides a geocoding service. Anyway, it seems that American cities have priority. If I am looking for a city, when I start writing, the first cities shown are American. Is there a way to restrict the search to just one specific…
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Geocode certain types of addresses ie all pharmacies within a specific area

I am new to R and have learned how to geocode a specific address, but I would like to know if it is possible to geocode all pharmacies within a certain area without providing addresses. To start, I tried to geocode Walgreens within a specific zip…
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Google maps address autocomplete and geocode API return diff addresses

I am using google maps places autocomplete API to autocomplete address typed by user and once i am done with selection of required address , passing selected address string from google places autocompleted address to google maps geocode api, to get…
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Script for creating dictionary from coordinates?

New here, and this is my first post. I have a python script that I am working on, and the scripts main purpose is to take a list of cities from a .txt file on my computer, and have the script spit out a dictionary where the keys are the city names…
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Geocoding in Stata using Google Maps: Legal or Illegal?

A recent article in the Stata Journal describes how to use Google Maps to Geocode data within Stata: Adam Ozimek and Daniel Miles, "Stata utilities for geocoding and generating travel time and travel distance information", The Stata Journal 11:1…
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accessing google maps via UIWebView - illegal?

New to iPhone development. Working on first app. I'm accessing google maps via UIWebView to forward geocode an address using "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=my address". It works, although it has this quirk of requiring you to hit "Back" button…
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Using Bing option with taRifx.geo in R

I'm attempting to find the coordinates for several cities in Ghana. I've used the geocode function in taRifx.geo with the "google" option and had success, but Google doesn't know where all my cities are. I'd like to use the Bing service to fill in…
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geocode adresses in R: grep() lookup world.cities dataset

I am trying to geocode some addresses stored in character vectors. I've used the geocode() function in ggmaps; however, it only classified about 50% of my addresses. I was hoping to use a more rudimentary approach looking up whether the city name…
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Incomplete results from android.location.geocoder.getFromLocationName()

This morning I get only incomplete addresses from android.location.geocoder, which is very different from what I would have got yesterday. For example geocoder.getFromLocationName("Burn"); returns: (java.util.ArrayList) [ …
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How Does python-omgeo 1.7.0 Work

I am trying to use several geocoding APIs (Google,Bing, etc.) with Python to find the average Latitude/Longitude of an address. I just stumbled upon python-omgeo 1.7.0 and was trying to determine if that is already what python-omgeo does? Does…
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