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Google Maps API

Posted At : July 5, 2005 11:50 AM
Related Categories: todo

So much work to do today. but at the same time my mind is spinning with the cool things I can do with this.

Surely there's a web service out there that will return lat/long for any given address (i'm sure google provides this service too). There are many others...

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I like the Google maps and can see using this for stuff here at work. but they need to seriously work on their directions engine. I had to go from Cherry Hill to Flemington on Sunday and they had me going out the PA turnpike to 611 to 202 with an estimaged 2 hours of driving time. The others had 95-31-202 which is the way I went with a drive time under 1 hour. Love the maps/satelite/interactivity. but directions are bad.
# Posted By Phil | 7/6/05 9:06 AM
address -> lat/long conversion. a.k.a "geocoding". is available free as a web service at http://geocoder.us/. You could also screen-scrape google to accomplish the same thing. but they don't (yet?) provide it as a service.
# Posted By Matt Casey | 7/6/05 4:04 PM
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