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Explore whether a geolocation API is superior to current regex-like matching approach for text-->country #5

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jspeed-meyers opened this issue Jan 28, 2021 · 2 comments
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Explore whether a geolocation API is superior to current regex-like matching approach for text-->country #5

jspeed-meyers opened this issue Jan 28, 2021 · 2 comments
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Specifically, assess each of these API's: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Alternatives_.2F_Third-party_providers

Do any of them allow bulk requests (say 10K/second) and are still free?
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Also, check out Geocoder: https://geocoder.readthedocs.io/

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@kdobolyi decided the geocoding API's are not worth the squeeze. We will go with a text matching approach.

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