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and that will be paid for, how?

Its been said that Maps is likely Google's most expensive product to maintain. Just think about the scope of driving every road in the world as often as possible.

It will only be replaced by OSM if OSM gets to be better than Maps on its own.

I think what you want is something like Microsoft Access on the web, only less crappy. I think its been tried many times and never done quite right.

The problem is if you totally max out freogeoip it doesn't scale (or let you pay) for more requests.

Parsing isn't the hard part, its the source data, which if you do the math on what Google has done (drive around the world taking 360 video and LIDAR of streets) is literally billions of dollars worth of work.

TIGER is a pretty bad starting point, geocoding based on block faces is really inaccurate if you want to zoom in to the street level. And its U.S. only.

OSM Nominatim should be a better place to start.

I'd love to see open sourced Street View data collection / processing as part of the OSM project. Then there is a chance to compete with Google.

TIGER (dataset that this is based on) has some giant holes in it, and is based on block faces not building footprints like Google Maps. Its also U.S. only... why not base on OSM, which should include TIGER as well as all the other contributions.

Cherry picking one example does not make you more accurate than Google Maps. TIGER has some giant holes in it, and is based on block faces not building footprints like Google Maps. In most cases Google Maps will be much more accurate and comprehensive.

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What about using Amazon's built-in database services (RDS, DynamoDB) instead?

Hmmm, security model is vaporware and VCs are deciding that we (developers) will really love this library before anyone is even using it.

I like Coda for the built in SSH support.. all my dev work is done on a dedicated dev server, I don't code anything locally.

So everyday text editors don't really work for me. I have tried remote mounting SSH and using text editors that way but its never been as smooth as Coda with the integrated file browsing.

Having a dedicated dev server is a real treat if you want to code from multiple machines and need a real robust server environment.

Its a great idea but the product seems only half done... I signed up and could only share links but I couldn't (as a product vendor) tell referly how much I'd pay for signups or register with the site in anyway.

It only seems to allow you to share links at this time, not register your product.

Yes I used them... The contract is transferrable. I have fully paid off the panels already so I suspect that it will add a lot of value to our house if we decided to sell.