International Geotagging APIs

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As I fired off requests to Google's geocoder API to plot several thousand points on a map for a recent project, a quick calculation showed that only about a third of the data returned valid latitude and longitude information. The data set I was dealing with was international - mapping members from nearly every country - so I knew I would have some issues, but only a third successful? I thought, come on, Google! After a few hours I developed a short list of helpful tips to follow to get a much higher success rate when geocoding data using Google or Yahoo. More on the blog: www.developmentseed.org/blog/geotagging/apis

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