Use a different API, maybe?

[emanuelfeld]

I somewhat sloppily switched over to a Google basemap (commenting out the Leaflet bits) to address Google API ToS issues. I'd rather just dump the Google API altogether, but haven't found any that:

1. Don't require a key
2. Are adept at address parsing
3. Are free and open

OSM Nominatim largely fails the second (or, perhaps, is just missing a number of addresses). Pelias might be an option soon, since they're working on the second issue.

[blueogive]

I'm not acquainted with OSM Nominatim or Pelias, but you might
consider the Here API. The ToS are more generous than Google's, and I've had good luck using it with DC addresses. The API I'd like to be able to recommend is that of the Data Science Toolkit, which is patterned after Google's API but without the ToS issues. Unfortunately, in my experience, it tends to return coordinates for non-matching addresses with no indication it is doing so.

HTH

[emanuelfeld]

@blueogive unfortunately, I don't believe Here is free (plans) and it requires a key for the application. Google's fine for now, but figured I'd flag this issue in case something better comes along.

[blueogive]

You're correct. Apologies. Only a couple months ago there was a free tier w/ 10K transactions/day and no key.

[MiniCodeMonkey]

Feel free to take a look at http://geocod.io too - we support batch geocoding.