Is there any UK addresses? I can't find anything obvious, UK, GB, GBR...
Nope, unfortunately Royal Post claims copyright on all of the address data and won't release it unless you pay.
Readit Newsyellowbkpk commented on Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use bitoff.org/geocoding-apis... · Posted by u/luismedel
yellowbkpk commented on Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use bitoff.org/geocoding-apis... · Posted by u/luismedel
I love seeing all the great comments in here about the different APIs and the features they do and don't offer, but I want to point out that the underlying data for addresses is incredibly hard to find. The reason the commercial geocoding providers won't let you store their data is because they're worried you'll store enough data to build your own geocoder.
To help with this, a group of folks (including me) started OpenAddresses (https://openaddresses.io/ and https://github.com/openaddresses/openaddresses/) with the goal of finding every open address dataset in the world. We produce a zip file with 100M's of addresses that several of the APIs mentioned in this thread use as a major part of their dataset. We've been going for well over 10 years now, but it would be great to have more eyes looking for more address sources. Check us out!
yellowbkpk commented on Stop using zip codes for geospatial analysis (2019) carto.com/blog/zip-codes-... · Posted by u/voxadam
For anyone curious, here is the official US Gov list of ZIP codes in CSV with lots of helpful related data (longitude, latitude, etc.)
http://federalgovernmentzipcodes.us/free-zipcode-database-Pr...
There is no "official US Gov list of ZIP codes". They come from the US Postal Service, and those aren't published for free.
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> The USPS knows about deliverable addresses but won't give that information to the federal government because then it'd be public domain and they would lose several of their primary data moats
Why does the USPS need a moat? It's not a private, profit-seeking enterprise
It's public and private. It still has to make money to survive because it doesn't get much in the way of tax money.
https://www.uspsoig.gov/focus-areas/did-you-know/postal-serv...
It boils down to the fact that the United States does not have (public domain) knowledge of every address in the country.
The USPS knows about deliverable addresses but won't give that information to the federal government because then it'd be public domain and they would lose several of their primary data moats (Zipcodes, addresses, delivery routes, for example). The Census has very complete knowledge of every address, but won't give it up because it's illegal (see Title 13 of the US Code). There is an ongoing attempt by the DOT to collect a National Address Database (https://www.transportation.gov/gis/national-address-database) by collecting information from the address assigning authorities (usually county governments), but it's incomplete and unlikely to ever be complete because of holdout/underfunded local governments.
There are several address datasets that are private (Google has a fairly complete one, FedEx/UPS probably have the most complete, TomTom, CostQuest, etc.). I started https://openaddresses.io/ to try and collect them (NAD is based off this idea) into an open-licensed dataset.
The broadband companies have records that say "this address is connected to this network, which could theoretically have this service level", but (a) they won't/can't tell you where they think the address is and (b) won't spend the time to match their address string format with the government's address because both are private data.
Finally, without the address -> location data, even if we could get broadband providers to tell us what service is available at each address, we couldn't put that service level on a map because we don't know where the address is.
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The Markup published some work in 2022 where they used OpenAddresses to use ISP's own tools to gather per-address service offerings and put them on a map. This is what the FCC's broadband map should be doing, but can't for the above (and political) reasons: https://themarkup.org/show-your-work/2022/10/19/how-we-uncov...
yellowbkpk commented on Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies theregister.com/2021/08/3... · Posted by u/alanwreath
What companies are offering $250k/year for engineers?
At least Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft.
yellowbkpk commented on Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better streets.mn/2020/09/28/amt... · Posted by u/gok
The Obama Administration tried to build high speed rail from Chicago to Madison, WI. It was supposed to be the first segment that would eventually extend to the twin cities. They have $700M dedicated to it. Then WI had an election for governor, and the incoming Republican (Scott Walker) managed to somehow conflate high speed inter-city rail with 'light rail' and scrapped it. He claimed it was too expensive, since the state would have to spend $7Million or so each year for their part of the maintenance (even though the feds were going to fully fund construction). After Scrapping it, the State then had to pay $90Million to upgrade the tracks between Chicago and Milwaukee (that was going to be paid for) and then had to pay $40M for the high speed Talgo Trains. Plus, Talgo moved their US headquarters from Milwaukee to Chicago.
Interestingly, it wasn't the Obama administration that tried to build the high speed rail. It was the Republican governor of Wisconsin (Tommy Thompson) that pushed for it. Scott Walker used it as a wedge to split the electorate and win the election. Wisconsin Public Radio did a great podcast about it here: https://www.wpr.org/derailed/wisconsins-high-speed-rail-saga...
The tile set I've been unable to find is an overlay of all roads, suitable for drawing on top of satellite and terrain maps. Are there any? There aren't any listed on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers
The Toner style from Stamen has several different layers that you can use to accomplish what you're talking about:
- Hybrid does exactly what you're looking for: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-hybrid/#12/37.7706/-122.3782
But they also break that down into labels and lines:
- Labels: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-labels/#12/37.7706/-122.3782
- Lines: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-lines/#12/37.7706/-122.3782
Their Terrain style has a similar separation:
- Lines: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-lines/#12/37.7706/-122.3782
- Labels: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-labels/#12/37.7706/-122.3782
- Background: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-background/#12/37.7706/-122.3...
Somehow that manages to surprise and confuse me almost every day. In desktop operating systems, and, I belive, in iOS, there is no need for such thing? Opening a PDF from a mail application usually just opens the PDF viewer as its own application, or it is embedded in some nice way that does not make the entire mail app suddenly look like a PDF viewer app instead.
Unfortunately they can probably never fix that because app lifecycle and intents are connected to everything and a good fix for this would probably break everything.
I wonder what experience made this feel more awkward for you (and conversely, why it feels more natural for me). What a weird/complex world we live in!