Geocode database

maps geocoding
Ramya picture Ramya · Jun 3, 2009 · Viewed 28.2k times · Source

Can I download address,city,state,postalcode - latitude/longitude information, that can be loaded to a db for US alone.. Also do comment about their accuracy and coverage..

I suppose all GPS devices do this.. any pointers where I can extract this info??

I tried google maps json api.. and don't like the idea that they rate limit the number of requests per second..

Thanks, Ramya

Edit: What I am looking for is "address , city , state , postalcode, latitude/longitude" in csv or dump.. that I can query locally.. ofcourse.. free of cost (non commercial).

Answer

Igor Shubovych picture Igor Shubovych · Jul 21, 2009

On the GeoNames you could download full database or the extracts for the country http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

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