For a web app I'm working on, I need to know the lat/lon of about 300 US cities. I also need to know the lat/lon for every US zip code.
Does anyone know of a free source to get this information?
Freebase will likely be able to help you. Here is New York and it has Lat/Long.
The Wal-Mart Expansion video used Freebase to get it's data, and it sounds like you're doing something similar.
Take a look at Ben Fry's Zip Code Visualizer. This is part of his book Visualizing Data.
There is an online database at Geocoder.us. And a simple perl module (we added a soap service to this so we could simply access it from any language, and the longest part of the development process was downloading database (it's about 4 GB).) The geocoing database is available from the US census bureau, a good article on getting this setup can be found here.
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I am looking to decode intents from many strings from many conversations I have stored in a database, so I can use machine learning to create an intelligent chatbot. I have heard and tested tools like Amazon Lex, but I am looking to receive the intent from a string not create my own intents. Here is a sample starting question from the data I am working with:
Hi, can I please find out the location of the nearest Depot to Meadow Springs WA 6210?
Is there any chance we could get 34 cases from Melbourne to Sydney by Friday. I am hoping it will be a Sydney to Sydney tomorrow but if not can anyone do this by Friday from Melbourne?
can you tell me how the warranty claim is going on booking number 9528 thanks
Intents are usually created for a specific application by providing examples. However, some services do provide pre-defined intents you can use.
LUIS provides prebuilt "domains" which include some place related queries
Snips has an "intents library" that you can use
That may be able to get you started. If that doesn't work, this guide to a from-scratch implementation may be useful.
So, I have been told that I will need to integrate some CANbus / J1939 output into a Windows app, and I know nothing about it.
There are vague plans to use an off the shelf device, and capture the output from that.
Since this seems to be a 7 layer model, I am presuming that I need to decode layer 3.
And, at that, I am stuck.
Any links to the correct spec? Other information? Existing free code which will take that data, parse it and stuff it into a MySql database? If there a central site, with forum, where I can better direct such questions? Any good books? Any same data for me to practise decoding? I am drowning in google results, but none greatly help.
take a look here http://www.ixxat.com/sae_j1939_api_en.html?navigation=28834, this is a proprietary API.
I want to be able to run queries locally comparing latitude and longitude of locations so I can run queries for certain addresses I've captured based on distance.
I found a free database that has this information for zip codes but I want this information for more specific addresses. I've looked at google's geolocation service and it appears it's against the TOS to store these values in my database or to use them for anything other than doing stuff with google maps. (If somebody's looked deeper into this and I'm incorrect let me know)
Am I likely to find any (free or pay) service that will let me store these lat/lon values locally? The number of addresses I need is currently pretty small but if my site becomes popular it could expand quite a bit over time to a large number. I just need to get the coordinates of each address entered once though.
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You're correct -- it can't be done with Google's service and still conform to the TOS. Cheers to you for honestly seeking to comply with the TOS.
I work at a company called SmartyStreets where we process addresses and verify addresses -- and geocode them, too. Google's terms don't allow you to store the data returned from the API, and there's pretty strict usage limits before they throttle or cut off your access.
Screen scraping presents many challenges and problems which are both technical and ethical, and I don't suppose I'll get into them here. The Microsoft library linked to by Giorgio is for .NET only.
If you're still serious about doing this, we have a service called LiveAddress which is accessible from any platform or language. It's a RESTful API which can be called using GET or POST for example, and the output is JSON which is easy to parse in pretty much every common language/platform.
Our terms allow you to store the data you collect as long as you don't re-manufacture our product or build your own database in an attempt to duplicate ours (or something of the like). For what you've described, though, it shouldn't be a problem.
Let me know if you have further questions about address geocoding; I'll be happy to help.
By the way, there's some sample code at our GitHub repo: https://github.com/smartystreets/LiveAddressSamples
http://www.zip-info.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe?ll=ll&zip=13206&Go=Go could use a screen scraper if you just need to get them once.
Also Microsoft provides this service. Check if this can help you http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc966913.aspx
I'm challenging myself to write an app I know nothing about in 2 months time and I need some direction. Suppose you wanted to create an awesome iPad app that takes craigslist posts and displays them in a neat fashion. How would I gather the information from craigslist.org using Objective-C/C in xCode? What objects would I be interacting with to create network connections and how would that information be read in? Would I be reading the source code?
Thank you!
Craigslist has RSS feeds, so I suppose you could just get the link, parse the feed, and display it on a table. There are too many examples to count out there on how to do that.
I know of the US GIS TIGER file format from years ago, but have never used it.
I'm very shortly going to need to very quickly implement simple geocoding and vector graphics of roads and other features.
Where do I go for information - are there tutorials, example queries, etc?
Are there other ways to include geocoding and basic mapping in a mobile (no internet) device?
-Adam
As far as I'm aware of, there aren't many applications that make use of the TIGER/Line format directly. Most apps use TIGER files that have been translated into ESRI's shapefile format.
Edited to add:
Is there information on ESRI's format available?
There's an ESRI whitepaper describing the file format.
If you're planning to use shapefiles in an application, there are various libraries out there.
The OpenStreetMap project imported TIGER data, you might find useful code snippets there. See the TIGER page on the OpenStreetMap wiki for more information and links