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OpenAddresses is by far the largest dataset by number of records used by Mapzen Search, so even though it only contains address data (i.e. no building names or other metadata), it's a great resource for global geocoding.
As Openaddresses is sourced from regional governments, its data is in the public domain.
As OpenAddresses is sourced from regional governments, its data is in the public domain.
[Mapzen Search](https://mapzen.com/projects/search) is a modern geographic search service based entirely on open-source tools and powered by entirely open data.
[Mapzen Search](https://mapzen.com/projects/search) is a modern geographic search service based entirely on open-source tools and powered entirely by open data.
The [source code is open](https://github.com/pelias/pelias) to view, modify, and contribute to. It's called Pelias, an experimental, community focused geocoder from Mapzen. Pelias is available for free and licensed for both commercial and non-commercial use.
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- Focusing a search: Searches all known places, but prioritizes places closer to the user (when the user's current location or approximate location is known)
- Autocomplete searches for forward geocoding: Allows a developer to build interfaces where an end-user can search for places and match against Mapzen Search's data in real-time
- Limiting results to a particular country: Allows the scoping of results to a particular country
- Reverse geocoding addresses + venues: Tries to find the name/address of the closest matching place to a geographic coordinate pair (a longitude and latitude). This can be used to take abstract location data (e.g. an end-user's device location) and find the closest address (often used in a weather or deliver app on someone's phone)
- Coarse reverse geocoding: Converts a geographic coordinate pair into the regional hiearchy for that particular place (e.g neighbourhood > locality (city/town) > Local Administrative Area (County, Prefecture) > Region (state/province) > country). This can be used to determine the general region of geographic data and can be quite useful in filtering for places in non-geographic databases that represent things that happen in places
- Reverse geocoding addresses + venues: Tries to find the name/address of the closest matching place to a geographic coordinate pair (a longitude and latitude). This can be used to take abstract location data (e.g. an end-user's device location) and find the closest address (often used in a weather or delivery app on someone's phone)
- Coarse reverse geocoding: Converts a geographic coordinate pair into the regional hierarchy for that particular place (e.g neighbourhood > locality (city/town) > Local Administrative Area (County, Prefecture) > Region (state/province) > country). This can be used to determine the general region of geographic data and can be quite useful in filtering for places in non-geographic databases that represent things that happen in places
To search for more than one `/place` in a request, join multiple values together and separate them with a comma. For example, this /place query looks up the Eiffel Tower in OSM and `30 West 26th St, New York, NY` in OpenAddresses:
Julian Simioni
9 years ago