Comments on: Question for App Makers Using Tiny GeoCoder

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:07:45 +0000

Nick,

That’s a great set of questions. It’s true that Google is one of our data providers. It’s also true that we do have explicit permission to run the service the way we do. Your suggestion of providing a list of our API geocoding sources is a great idea and we’ll definitely add a page to display those sources and link to their TOS. Thank you for the suggestions.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:53:59 +0000

I couldn’t find a list of sources for this site’s API geocoding service. The previous post says Google is one of them. Google has a TOS defined, so users of this site’s API service must also inherent google’s TOS + those of any other data sources [right?]. Can you provide a list of your API geocoding sources or a TOS.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:43:55 +0000

Hi Jason,

We do use Google as one of our data sources, but batch processing that much would be too much for us to handle right now all at once. We are looking into some solutions for something like that, but haven’t finalized any plans quite yet.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Hey, thanks for making a resource like this available. I’ve got a new site I’m developing that’s going to make heavy use of Google maps, and the GClientGeocoder isn’t really viable for it. I basically need to batch process about 100,000 addresses. I’ve got a java application that’s using Google geocoding, but I’m running up against the query timing limits, so it’s a lot slower than I would like.
Are you using Google for geocoding, and if so, is Google getting the request from the client (which wouldn’t fix my problem), or your server (dev key, special request, whatever). Finally, would you have a problem with me using your service for this? It would most likely be a one time job, with much smaller updates every month or so. Just my own code, not for distribution.
Thanks.

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:38:25 +0000

@harryteguh,

If you wouldn’t mind, please send me a message via http://blog.perfectspace.com/contact so I can include you in on a discussion we’re getting started regarding the co-op.

Thanks.

By: harryteguh

harryteguh — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:07:35 +0000

I see.

It’s okay, Nate. I finally got it figured out :)

As for the queries, I’m going to need about 10 unique queries for now.

Thanks a lot for your help :)

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:31:53 +0000

Yes, that’s correct – place names of coordinates.

Right now, we’re working on putting together a co-op of sorts, so what I might suggest is hitting us up via email and we’ll talk more about what we need there.

No, unfortunately I don’t have any experience with J2ME.

By: harryteguh

harryteguh — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:51:00 +0000

Unique queries as in place names of a coordinates, right? Let’s say 5

Anyway, Do you have any experiences with J2ME Programming? If you do, I really2 need your help. I still can’t get over this “602: Address Isn’t known” error message on my J2ME application. I also have an example code I got from the following address:

http://mobilepit.com/02/javame-jsr-179-example-code-detect-location-via-tinygeocoder.html

It works well and doesn’t have this kind of message.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:56:53 +0000

Harry,

First, Thanks for the kudos. I appreciate it.

Second, I don’t mind at all. Thank you for letting me know what you’re working on. I love hearing what people are doing with it.

Third, yes, we do server out 620 errors every now and then. These come about because when we are over capacity with our data providers in a 24 hour period. We have multiple providers, but because of the popularity of the service, we still go over every now and then. It usually takes a few hours to clear up.

We do cache the queries though, so once you’ve sent it in once, we don’t incur another hit against our providers. But, the big question is… how many unique queries will you be running through?

By: harryteguh

harryteguh — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:33:47 +0000

Hi, Nate

First of all let me say that your website is great.

Second, as my final year project, I’m trying to develop a Java ME application that can track a GPS-enabled, and Java compatible mobile phone. I’ve managed at making the application acquire it’s current coordinates, and I’m also using your website as a coordinate translator into a place name so, hope you don’t mind :)

But I found problems that sometimes my application shows an error message that reads “602: Address isn’t known” or the “620″ error code. I also have another application source code that is trying to do the same thing as mine. But it works well and doesn’t have this kind of problem at all. Do you know why is this happening?

Thanks in advance
-Harry