An overview of the motivations behind the OpenCage geocoder. Learn more and test the geocoder:

1. A meta-geocoding API
Ed Freyfogle
Geoinquiets - 2 July 2015
http://opencagedata.com
@opencagedata

2. Problem

3. Where are we?

4. © OpenStreetMap contributors

5. 41.39834, 2.12462

7. Barcelona!

8. Barcelona!
Sarrià

9. Barcelona!
Sarrià
08017

10. Barcelona!
Sarrià
08017
Spain
Catalonia
Jaume Piquet 23
Europe
BCN

12. placename long/lat

13. placename long/lat
forward

14. placename long/lat
forward
reverse

16. Yes!

17. Yes! but …
T&Cs
expensive at volume

18. OpenStreetMap

19. Yes!

20. Yes! but …
not for high volume use
variable coverage
hard/expensive to set up

22. Yes!

23. Yes! and …
one API, many geocoders
free as in freedom
dev friendly

24. You Geonames
and more

25. Open data
use any map you like
cache as long as you like
fix it
get creative

26. Win on dev friendliness

27. openclosed
easy
painful

28. 41.39834, 2.12462

29. © OpenStreetMap contributors

30. Formatting
"components" : {
"city" : "Barcelona",
"city_district" : "Sarriu00e0 - Sant Gervasi",
"community_centre" : "Casa Orlandai",
"country" : "Spain",
"country_code" : "es",
"county" : "BCN",
"pedestrian" : "Plau00e7a del Xiprer",
"postcode" : "08023",
"state" : "Catalonia",
"suburb" : "Sarriu00e0"
},

31. Formatting
"components" : {
"city" : "Barcelona",
"city_district" : "Sarriu00e0 - Sant Gervasi",
"community_centre" : "Casa Orlandai",
"country" : "Spain",
"country_code" : "es",
"county" : "BCN",
"pedestrian" : "Plau00e7a del Xiprer",
"postcode" : "08023",
"state" : "Catalonia",
"suburb" : "Sarriu00e0"
},
“formatted” : "Casa Orlandai, Plau00e7a del Xiprer, 08023 Barcelona, Spain",

32. 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1T 5DU, United Kingdom
223 William Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Rosenthaler Straße 1, 10119 Berlin, Germany
Via Pisacane, 13, 76121 Barletta BT, Italy
3 Upper Alma Road, Rosebank, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa

38. We need your help
https://github.com/opencagedata/address-formatting

39. Annotations
timezones
time of sunrise/sunset
geohash, MGRS, Maidenhead
what3words
calling codes
OS gridrefs

41. What should we add?
All suggestions welcome

42. What’s next?
leave beta, announce pricing
more formatting, annotations
feedback loop to OSM

43. Start geocoding:
opencagedata.com

44. Stay informed
@opencagedata
blog.opencagedata.com
@freyfogle (gladly IRL)

45. Other stuff

46. Like geo and in
London?

47. See you at #geomob
15th July
geomobldn.org
@geomob

48. Geo seed investing
Simplest way to communicate locations
Wearable, washable, all weather maps

49. Please get in touch if you are a location based
service/geo start-up seeking seed funding

50. Ed Freyfogle
@freyfogle
http://opencagedata.com
@opencagedata
Thanks!
Questions?