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Laef ⛅
@laef · Programmer and founder, FindALostPet
I've know about this API for quite some time but haven't really used it yet. However, I got seriously annoyed at Google Maps API today and it's conditions (like that you can only use their data with Google Maps and not Stamen or Mapbox, and that you can't cache requests). OpenCage Geocoder, on the other hand, allows you to do pretty much whatever you want wi… See more
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Steve Messer
@stevenjmesser · Product Manager @ Porism
We can't use the Google Maps API behind our paywall and OpenStreetMap isn't always reliable at geocoding partial addresses – or full postcodes – but Geocoder from OpenCafe allows us to place markers for a street name and post town. Proving very useful for us.