[ckan-discuss] Next steps on datacatalogs.org?

Tue Oct 4 09:28:06 BST 2011

>>>>> "cygri" == Richard Cyganiak <richard at cyganiak.de> writes:

    cygri> Searching for “Barcelona, Spain” and “Province of Barcelona,
    cygri> Spain” yields different results in Google Maps, so I suppose
    cygri> with some care on the data entry side even a simple text
    cygri> field plus geocoding API could be sufficient.

Surely there's an alternative geocoding API go GOOG. It would be a shame
to have to rely on proprietary data and services to present information
about ostensibly open data catalogues. Are you even allowed to republish
the polygons you get from them?

-w

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