2011/6/13 Jean-Frédéric jeanfrederic.wiki@gmail.com:
2011/6/13 Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl
Did anyone already try to use the Google Geocoding API [2] to get the coordinates?
I did. I put together a proof of concept using Google Docs, see https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjZN8eBGaLjSdGg5WDY3OUFJRmk0NmNLRFFLSnJ6ckE&hl=en_US&authkey=CNSs97UN
This uses OSM API and GMaps API − At first look, OSM does not return that great results, GMaps works better.
I was unsure of what to do with it (whether or not it was precise enough to mass-geoloc items)
To my understanding, Poulpy already did something along those lines − can you confirm ?
Unfortunately, searching for the address field is useless for monuments outside of cities (at least for RO). We have indications like "2 km SV of the village church" or "in the garden of the elementary school in the village", which are totally useless, both in GMaps and OSM searches.
I would very much prefer to look for the code or the name+city name, but of course this would mean custom tools for each country, as one would have different keys in OSM depending on the country.
Strainu