> Also, the things I'd like to see, so that I don't have to build them myself, would be:
1. Worldwide address geocoding with no usage restrictions. AFAICT, this service does not exist.
2. Worldwide address canonicalization. If I'm missing a postal code, province, etc, or if a phone number is in a weird format, I'd love a service that would clean that up for me.
3. Address unification among services. I'd love to be able to tie together the primary ids of a given address among the various services: Yelp, foursquare, Gowalla, OpenStreetMap, etc.
I think #1 and #2 here are the most interesting -- with really limited providers to solve the problems. Address geolocation is a PIA, foreign address geolocation is even worse.
A non-connected private version would also be worth something (lots of money in the Government for this kind of service, usually not on the Internet).
I think #1 and #2 here are the most interesting -- with really limited providers to solve the problems. Address geolocation is a PIA, foreign address geolocation is even worse.
A non-connected private version would also be worth something (lots of money in the Government for this kind of service, usually not on the Internet).