Re: Get latitude/longitude from address for free

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 4:06 PM Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Haven't needed this ability in bulk for several years. But shortly I will
have use for geocoding ~300 addresses.

That is very small, so you have a number of free options; even for
commercial use. I'll get to them in a second...

The web service(s) I used several
years (with lots of help from Doug Handy several times!) are no longer
working/available.

Several years ago. Wouldn't happen to have been

https://webgis.usc.edu/Services/Geocode/

would it? Because if so, the guy who was responsible for that
apparently moved from USC to Texas A&M:

http://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/

Since this is a one-time thing, the simplest way to go is probably not
an API but just an interactive site which accepts a file (text, CSV,
or Excel) and spits out the results. A couple of examples which I
*think* have fairly liberal use terms, including commercial use (but I
am not a lawyer):

https://geocod.io/

https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/

Actually, most sites (including all the above) have both an
interactive upload/download feature as well as an API, so most likely
you can just dust off whatever you were using before and adapt it to
one of the newer services. That would even let you do your ongoing
handful in an automated way as well.

Geocodio is free up to 2500 per day, U.S. Census Bureau is completely
free as far as I can tell.

John Y.