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Ask HN: How does Google maintain/update the information for the GeoCoding API?

3 pointsby whatitdoboobooover 5 years ago
Or more specifically, If someone wanted to recreate this for NYC, how would they go about it?

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NetToolKitover 5 years ago
The good news is that you can do it for NYC using OpenAddresses data. We published two pieces about how to geocode more generally:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nettoolkit.com&#x2F;geo&#x2F;the-basics-of-geocoding" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nettoolkit.com&#x2F;geo&#x2F;the-basics-of-geocoding</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nettoolkit.com&#x2F;geo&#x2F;adventures-in-address-parsing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nettoolkit.com&#x2F;geo&#x2F;adventures-in-address-parsing</a><p>It turns out that geocoding has been a much bigger project than we anticipated, but we offer the service very inexpensively. Let me know if you have any questions.