Slides of a talk delivered by Ed Freyfogle (@freyfogle) about the OpenCage Geocoder at #WhereBerlin on 14th Nov 2014 in Berlin. Please try the geocoder http://geocoder.opencagedata.com we welcome your feedback

1. A meta-geocoding API
Ed Freyfogle
#WhereBerlin - 14 Nov. 2014
http://opencagedata.com
@opencagedata

2. - based in London
- 20 employees
- since 2006

3. - residential real estate search engine
- 9 countries
- process 20M listings / day
- 4M users / month

6. You Geonames
and more

7. placename long/lat
forward
reverse

9. Yes!

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

11. OpenStreetMap

12. Yes!

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

15. Yes!

16. Yes! and …
one API, many geocoders
free as in freedom
dev friendly (annotations, etc)

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

18. Win on dev friendliness

19. 52.54448,13.35322

21. Formatting
"components" : {
"city_district" : "Mitte",
"country" : "Germany",
"country_code" : "de",
"house_number" : “10”,
"neighbourhood" : "Sprengelkiez",
"postcode" : "13353",
"road" : "Luxemburger Straße",
"state" : "Berlin",
"suburb" : "Wedding"
},

22. Formatting
"components" : {
"city_district" : "Mitte",
"country" : "Germany",
"country_code" : "de",
"house_number" : “10”,
"neighbourhood" : "Sprengelkiez",
"postcode" : "13353",
"road" : "Luxemburger Straße",
"state" : "Berlin",
"suburb" : "Wedding"
},
“formatted” : "Luxemburger Straße 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany",

23. 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

29. We need your help
https://github.com/lokku/address-
formatting

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

31. Win on dev friendliness

32. Start geocoding:
opencagedata.com

33. What’s next?
leave beta, start charging
more formatting, annotations
dedupe
feedback to OSM

34. Like geo and in
London?

35. See you at #geomob
13th Jan
geomobldn.org

36. Ed Freyfogle
#WhereBerlin - 14 Nov. 2014
http://opencagedata.com
@opencagedata
Thanks!
Questions?