alt Hacker NewsHi, Ed here, one of the founders of OpenCage. This comparison is a bit shallow to be honest, as it basically just looks at price. Of course price is important, but as someone who has worked on geocoding for 10+ years and helped literally thousands of customers there are many more factors to consider depending on your needs.
For example: quality (not generally, but versus your actual input data), terms & conditions of what you can do with the data, support, data enhancements (things like timezones, etc, etc), ease of use, documentation, terms of payment, and more.
The only real answer to "which geocoding service is best" is "it depends".
We have a comprehensive geocoding buyer's guide on our site: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-compare-and-test-geoc...
Please get in touch if you need geocoding, hapyp to tell you if your needs are a good match for our service. Happy also to tell you if not.
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The comparison page link is comprehensive, nice!
To summarize the main point of roll-your-own vs. a pay-per-request api the main point seems to be updating with updated/new OSM data.
In terms of comparing Google Maps vs. Open Cage vs. roll your own OSM / Nominatim what would you say are the main features that are different? (not dev time or infra stuff- just what's different about the request/result)
Hey, I’m acutely in the market (considering moving away from Google)
2 Qs:
1. How does OpenCage correctness/completeness compare to Google Maps API, especially in rural and industrial regions where you have addresses like “AcmeCo Industries, 234-XY Unit C, Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai”? I’d like to confidently query the most precise location that still matches/contains my query.
2. Do you support querying by business names? Google’s geocoding doesn’t return the business name in the result (that’s a separate API), but it does use business names to resolve queries.