Excel Geocoding Tool v2

I'm happy to announce a few small revisions to our Excel geocoding tool. The tool takes a list of addresses and will look up the latitude and longitude of those addresses. The addresses can then be exported as a Google Earth map.

A user pointed out that the tool wasn't looking up zip+4 codes properly in Yahoo and this problem is fixed along. Also, I'm sorry to report that Yahoo has lowered their limit of free geocodes to 5,000 per day from 50,000 per day.

Geocoding Tool v3.1.xls

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. All source code is released under a BSD License unless otherwise specified.

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July 23, 2008
Nathan said:

Thanks for this very usefull tool. I used the same idea to create my own Geocoding program in MS Access. I wrote an application that gets the lat, long and precision from both GOOGLE and YAHOO servers, determines which one is best precision, and even calculates the distance between them. I was wondering about the 5,000 daily limit. Lately I have been doing way more, about 30,000 - 40,000 a day with no problems. Does anyone know if they lifted the limit?


July 30, 2008
James said:

Nathan - Using the GeocodingTool v3.1.xls, I have been able to Geocode way more than the said 5,000 limit. So it would appear to me the limit has been lifted.

on a side note - does anyone know how to Geocode locations outside of North America?


August 3, 2008
Wes said:

I have been able to geocode 55K in one day with Yahoo. The API has been lifted in conjunction with Y! Search Boss.
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/


August 22, 2008
Tim said:

Nathan - I am interested in your Access geocoding program. Do you have plans to make it available?


August 28, 2008
Mark said:

I'm italian and we use the decimal char = comma ",", so I have to edit the output.klm file and change the string
coordinates>12,90542,43,912535,0</coordinates> in
coordinates>12.90542,43.912535,0</coordinates> (change "," withh ".".
Is possible to change the program for European use?
Thanks very mutch.

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