[School-of-data] Geocoding tutorials on the School of Data Blog

Wed Feb 20 22:56:30 UTC 2013

Tom

>We used to have that as one of our examples, but it's against the Google Terms of Service to use the results for anything other than displaying on one of their maps, which isn't usually what you want to do with it.

Ah, yes, terms of service:-(

;-)
tony

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From: Tom Morris [tfmorris at gmail.com]
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Subject: Re: [School-of-data] Geocoding tutorials on the School of Data Blog

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Tony.Hirst <Tony.Hirst at open.ac.uk<mailto:Tony.Hirst at open.ac.uk>> wrote:
I just posted an OpenRefine recipe for using the Google maps goecoding api (not sure what limits it has?)

http://blog.ouseful.info/2013/02/20/geocoding-using-the-google-maps-geocoder-via-openrefine/

We used to have that as one of our examples, but it's against the Google Terms of Service to use the results for anything other than displaying on one of their maps, which isn't usually what you want to do with it.

Tom

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