Geocding a lot of addreses

Question

Hello

I understand how to geocode using a URL (and multimap returns an "XML page" with the relevent information).

However, I have quite a large number of addresses that I want to geocode and I don't want to manually copy the URL to the browser, hit send and then copy/paste the result.

Is there a way of automating this so that I can provide a list of addresses  and get back a file containg the XML for all the addresses I have supplied?

Thx

Doug

Answer 1

Is there a way of automating this so that I can provide a list of addresses  and get back a file containg the XML for all the addresses I have supplied?

Terms of use for the Open API appear to prohibit that -

http://www.multimap.com/openapi/terms_of_use/

3 (xiv) "You may not use any automated process or service to access and/or use the service"

If you were planning to store the data, 3 (xii) looks prohibitive too - "You may not attempt to make a local non-cache copy...  of any content  ... "

If you are a B2B customer, check the terms for that.

There are commercial geocoding services: pass them a file, get a file back (for a fee).

There are other geocoding services that may not prohibit your intended use -

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/web/resources-non-google-geocoders