OpenStreetMap reverse geocoding zip codes?

web-services openstreetmap reverse-geocoding
Roman A. Taycher picture Roman A. Taycher · Feb 10, 2010 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

I'm working on a blackberry application and would like to use the OpenStreetMap reverse geo-coding to get an address and/or a street corner. I found Nominatim but it doesn't seem to do zip codes in the US (it has UK postal codes though), is there a OpenStreetMap API to get zipcodes, or some other free/open licensed reverse geocoding or address to zipcode data/API

note: this is for a final school project(but as this is a API/data source question I feel its fair to ask)

note2: another person has already done a google maps version, I'm looking for something w/ a Creative Commons type license, please don't mention google maps -be careful, I found at least one API that claims to be open but seems to be based around both OSM , google, and other data (ie, it didn't have the rights to give away to its data).

Answer

guerda picture guerda · Feb 24, 2010

I use Geonames.org. It offers different webservices around geocoding.

The Postcode WS will help you:
Postcode for Washington, USA:

There's a commercial offer but I don't know if the service is totally free. There's a limit of 3000 requests per day and ip.

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