geocoding

Can I download address,city,state,postalcode - latitude/longitude information, that can be loaded to a db for US alone.. Also do comment about their accuracy and coverage.. I suppose all GPS devices do this.. any pointers where I can extract this info?? I tried google maps json api.. and don't like the idea that they rate limit the number of requests per second.. Thanks, Ramya Edit: What I am looking for is "address , city , state , postalcode, latitude/longitude" in csv or dump.. that I can query locally.. ofcourse.. free of cost (non commercial). On the GeoNames you could download full

EDIT: I have been using Postgres with PostGIS for a few months now, and I am satisfied. I need to analyze a few million geocoded records, each of which will have latitude and longitude. These records include data of at least three different types, and I will be trying to see if each set influences the other. What database is best for the underlying data store for all this data? Here's my desires: I'm familiar with the DBMS. I'm weakest with PostgreSQL, but I am willing to learn if everything else checks out. It does well with GIS queries. Google searches suggest that PostgreSQL + PostGIS may

Having problems getting the different arrays content from geocoder results. item.formatted_address works but not item.address_components.locality? geocoder.geocode( {'address': request.term }, function(results, status) { response($.map(results, function(item) { alert(item.formatted_address+" "+item.address_components.locality) } }); // the array returned is; "results" : [ { "address_components" : [ { "long_name" : "London", "short_name" : "London", "types" : [ "locality", "political" ] } ], "formatted_address" : "Westminster, London, UK" // rest of array... any help appreciated! Dc v3nt Got

I need to geocode around 200 addresses per request and do around 3,000 request per day. I will be doing this server side using PHP. I have looked at How to convert an address to a latitude/longitude? , but could not find a way for either Google Maps HTTP Request API or the Yahoo Geocoding REST API (cannot use JavaScript as this is server side) to send multiple addresses. I will be primarily using this to sort addresses based on the coordinates and if the API supports, fill in any missing data for each address. The addresses will be in the United States only. The addresses to geocode will be

Does anyone know of any open RESTful API that I can call to geocode a user's IP to the latitude and longitude? Ideally, it would be something like: http://google.com/geocode_api/?IP=1.2.3.4 and it would return the latitude and longtitude. Another free REST API with city accurate information would be http://freegeoip.net Requests are fairly straight forward. You would use something like http://freegeoip.net/{format}/{ip_or_hostname} to geocode an IP address, where format can be csv , xml or json . Their website has all the details. [UPDATE:] FreeGeoIP.net was not continuously available in the