Talk:Address geocoding

message: The research section was not representative of the research on this topic, and was relying basically in one source which is a PhD thesis at Curtin University in Australia. There are tons of surveys etc. on this topic see e.g.  — ChaTo (talk) 10:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Research

message: Pizza Deliveryis a critical service, when you stop and think about it. 
Especially if you make a living out of it and your customers won't pay you when the pizza is cold, or just delayed to the door.Ragnvald 21:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversies

message: I am wondering if this definition of geocoding might be more to the point: "Geocoding is to transform one spatial reference into another more general reference". Comments? Ragnvald 07:40, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Way too obscure.  My doubts to the current definition are with the source material.  I generally use MS Photo Pro Tools or Geosetter and drag the pinpoint on the map to where I was when I took the picture.  Should this process escape the "geocoding" definition because it works from a map rather than from alphanumeric data?  Jim.henderson (talk) 00:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Main definition

message: Please use some scientific foundation or technical source. Dictionaries are not correct "source of Truth", are only sources for terminological use. --Krauss (talk) 12:52, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dictionary is a bad source of definition 

message: Why does this article have a list of 33 Geocoding systems, yet no entries for the main 3 geocoding systems, namely:  (1) Google Maps, (2) Yahoo PlaceFinder and (3) Bing maps?   I just added them, but I'm not sure why they weren't there originally.  Tcotco (talk) 02:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have moved the list to its own page, which seemed appropriate given how long and detailed it is. - Lawsonstu (talk) 15:24, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Geocoding systems 

message: How accurate are commercial geocoders in the US? This article currently has estimates for TIGER datasets. I'm looking for figures/studies estimating geocoders from Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.66.147.165 (talk) 00:19, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy 

message: How could the article not mention the curious system used for Google Maps waypoints?!
maps.google.com/maps?saddr=...&daddr=...&geocode=...%3BFSICcQEdQGY0Bw%3BFV8HcQEdRWk0Bw... Note these are point encodings, not path encodings. Jidanni (talk) 15:02, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Google Maps waypoints

message: From article:
Geocoding (sometimes called forward geocoding) is the process of enriching a description of a location, most typically a postal address or place name, with geographic coordinates from spatial reference data such as building polygons, land parcels, street addresses, postal codes (e.g. ZIP codes, CEDEX) and so on. Geocoding facilitates spatial analysis using Geographic Information Systems and Enterprise Location Intelligence systems.
But this process should called reverse geocoding not forward geocoding. Because forward geocoding is process of enriching a geographic coordinates from address or name. (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/?hl=en#ReverseGeocoding)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caiiiycuk (talk • contribs) 03:14, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forward geocoding vs reverse geocoding 

message: Hi guys. I would think an unbiased list of geocoding services would be useful to people.  Seems there was a list here, then it got moved to its own article, then got deleted as it was deemed to be written in a rather advertising way.
Taken a lot of digging to find helpful info.  The best I found was https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/OtherGeocoders/ which is probably most useful, but out of date even though only 3 months old (some links don't work, others have significantly changed prices?).  I think it might well be useful to the public to put together a straightforward table of geocoding services, basics of free\pay structures\rates, their data sources, API access options, and coverage areas.  Certainly it can easily be fiddled with to mislead\advertise... but so can any wikipedia article.  And in many ways, I'd consider it more unbiased than finding a similar list on a forum or company website, as at least the community can work to keep it in check (and up to date).  Perhaps the TAMU person can be convinced to be a watcher of the page.  So was wondering what the position would be on such a page before jumping into it, given that past versions didn't stand up well.
JeopardyTempest (talk) 11:02, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: After looking through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_directory in more detail, wondering if perhaps making the free\pay structures\rates would just be better as Availability, and then list free quota or just simply paid if none exists.  That would prevent it from being a continuing pay update, and at least still allow users to have a central compilation to search from?.
Also wondering what the page title would be (as I'm quite convinced it still doesn't belong on this page, only linked).  Is the List_of_geocoding_systems page a bit confusing title to others as well, and such a list would belong properly back on that page?  I know it's a be bold world out here, but wanted to get opinions before doing something poor in this case.  Thanks!
JeopardyTempest (talk) 11:08, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebuild a list of geocoding systems? 

message: See eg. this what-is-geocoding with similar content but very better presentation... Because have illustrations.
There are also good references with graphics comparing geocoding techniques, as this one.  --Krauss (talk) 11:13, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrations? 

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message: This really doesn't sound like the kind of facts I expect to find on Wikipedia.    I peeked in the history and it didn't seem to be a recent edit (or maybe I just missed it).   I'm not going to try to edit it and trigger an edit war, so I'm just bringing it to your attention.
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replies: text: I checked the history and sure enough, it is a recent edit.   Still, I'm going to let someone else undo the changes 172.220.16.4 (talk) 17:51, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The best geocoding service in europe"