Geocoding in Europe with batchgeocode.com

Geocoding in Europe With batchgeocode.com

October 18th, 2007 · 8 Comments · GIS

Phillip Holmstrand let me know that with Yahoo Maps now supporting geocoding in Europe his online geocoding website, batchgeocode.com, now supports many European addresses.

Now you can geocode and get map coordinates for these countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and Italy

It appears there is somewhat limited support for these countries: Albania, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia/Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey.

That is great news. I tried our Germany office and it worked perfectly. Now bulk geocoding is not limited to North America. You can find out more at his blog and he’s looking for suggestions or comments about the European support, leave them on his blog.

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8 responses so far ↓

1 Julien Muraz // Oct 19, 2007 at 6:10 am

I’ve made some tests with sample data between the google vs yahoo api for geocoding, it shows up that google api is for now much better than yahoo api in the european countryside areas. Results are posted on georezo.net …

Regards

Julien Muraz
2 Bill Gates // Oct 19, 2007 at 10:17 am

What about Virtual Earth??? Doesn’t anyone listen to me anymore? I want to play in the GIS world too!
3 J Wallis // Oct 19, 2007 at 10:27 am

Bill G,

Just buy ESRI and get it over with. We know you want to.

This site needs to offer GeoRSS export so it can feed into VE.
4 Tanvir // Oct 19, 2007 at 12:55 pm

Countries in Europe are making great strides technologically. One country has impressed me more than others, is Estonia. They have done well economically as well. I just saw a website about Estonia’s Singing Revolution – http://singingrevolution.com; this is quite inspirational.
5 Pelle // Oct 21, 2007 at 10:36 am

I just checked the Yahoo license and the batchgeocoder site seems to be quite dubious in that respect except for the use in integrated Yahoo maps. E.g. exporting to KML is in clear violation of the terms.

From http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/mapsTerms.html:

YOU SHALL NOT:
…
(viii) store or allow end users to store map imagery, map data or geocoded location information from the Yahoo! Maps APIs for any future use;

(ix) use the stand-alone geocoder for any use other than displaying Yahoo! Maps or displaying points on Yahoo! Maps;

(x) publish or display, or allow other users to publish or display, any geocoded location information using any Yahoo! Maps APIs; or

(xi) use the Yahoo! Maps APIs in a product or service that competes with products or services offered by Yahoo!.
6 riccardo zilli // Oct 22, 2007 at 1:43 am

hi everybody.
can someone help me to geocode adresses in arcmap? i have to add XY but i d0n’t know the coordinate system! (i guess is different from our italian one) thanks for help, sorry for my english, and big respcet for this blog
riccardo
7 Pelle // Oct 22, 2007 at 11:00 am

Yeah well that’s all fine and dandy and much of the functionality is clearly violating the Yahoo Maps API terms of use that for instance disallows using the results of geocoding for anything except display in Yahoo Maps.

Reality check anyone?
8 baudmap // Jun 3, 2008 at 4:24 am

If you’d like to try a desktop geocoder, Aliwal Geocode might be useful. It’s open source and uses Yahoo maps & geocoding API too.