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Research the use of an external geocoder (like Google) #26

Closed copelco closed 12 years ago

copelco commented 12 years ago

I added GoogleGeocoder, which can optionally be used by ScraperWiki, to geocode addresses:

https://github.com/openrural/openrural-nc/blob/master/openrural/retrieval/geocoders.py

copelco commented 12 years ago

Using Google's geocoder I was able to increase the success rate of one dataset to 95%. I've drafted a blog post with the details.