<story><title>LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service</title><url>http://locationiq.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>buckhx</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad to see more geocoding offerings, but if you need more than a few thousand addresses, you&amp;#x27;ll find no offering will. Running your own geocoding really shouldn&amp;#x27;t be that scary of thing to do.&lt;p&gt;The biggest pain in running your own OSM geocoder (nominatim) is kind of a bear to set up. I imagine there docker images that could make things a bit easier and allow you to grab a region extract, but I could be wrong there.&lt;p&gt;On a side note, I was working on an open source geocoder based on OSM that was easy to build as part of a mapping util I&amp;#x27;ve been working on (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;buckhx&amp;#x2F;diglet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;buckhx&amp;#x2F;diglet&lt;/a&gt;). I lost some traction on the geocoding side of things and have been focusing more on map building&amp;#x2F;serving, but did get a stable version for US addresses. There are lot&amp;#x27;s of interesting problems that come along with geocoding.</text></comment>
<story><title>LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service</title><url>http://locationiq.org</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caleblloyd</author><text>This is fantastic.  I talked to Google for their geocoding API a couple years ago and was quoted $17,500 per year for a pretty basic package that included up to 10 requests per second and 100,000 geocodes per day if I remember correctly.&lt;p&gt;I looked at hosting OSM myself but it seemed like a lot of work.  Huge data files for the initial import and setting up daily increment jobs.  Glad to see a managed service emerging!</text></comment>