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Naor
Naor

Reputation: 24063

free location service - street by name

Does anyone knows any free location services that will allow me to find streets according to cities in Israel? I can use any java, .NET or javascript api.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4744

Answers (2)

josh3736
josh3736

Reputation: 144912

OSM Nominatim is probably your best bet if you want to search for a street within a city.

The nominatim.openstreetmap.org servers have a somewhat restrictive usage policy; MapQuest also provides the Nominatim service without usage limits.

If you're planning on a very high volume of queries, you'll be better off installing Nominatim on your own servers, but be warned that this is not a trivial task, and the dataset is approaching a terabyte in size.

If you're looking for a list of streets, there's a few options. The easiest is to use mapsomatic to generate a CSV, but this is manual and only works if you need one or two cities.

It's more complicated if you need more than one city:

  1. download osmosis (and perhaps osmembrane which is a beta GUI for osmosis)
  2. download your country extract netherlands.osm.pbf (~430MB)
  3. create a polygon file parseable by osmois (see osm2polygon)
  4. run osmosis with the polygon and extract all ways that have the tags name=* and highway=residential
    1. way-key name,highway
    2. tag filter reject-node, reject-relation

Upvotes: 2

Damian
Damian

Reputation: 3050

I don't know any service to list all streets in a specific city. Maybe you could use The Google Places Autocomplete API and restrict places types to be streets (see this).

Upvotes: 0

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