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Is there any Geocoding tool which is open source and can be used in commercial application?

We tried Google geocoding API's but cannot continue with it because of some licensing limitation.

Now we are exploring GisGraphy but haven't finalized it.

Is any other better alternative available?

Currently we want to GeoCode US data only but in future we may extend it to other countries.

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the best suitable option is not geonames OR openstreetmap but both, Geonames is good for city data, and Openstreetmap for streets, if you use both you will get a good dataset for geocoding. that's the goal of gisgraphy, use the two datasets to get the best relevance.

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  • It's worth to note that geonames provides many datasets (e.g bounding box) only with the "premium" subscription($ 750per year)
    – themihai
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 6:30
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Yes - try out MapQuest geocoding and the MapQuest Open Nominatim service. We've (MapBox) used them on a number of projects and they're great and the TOS are quite reasonable.

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  • I just tried MapQuest geocoding (Open Data version), and it was only able to geocode less than 50% of the addresses I tried. The addresses are in CO.
    – Chris Muench
    Commented Feb 19, 2014 at 0:00
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US (TIGER data) Geocoder

Geocoder::US 2.0 is a software package designed to geocode US street addresses. Although it is primarily intended for use with the US Census Bureau’s free TIGER/Line dataset, it uses an abstract US address data model that can be employed with other sources of US street address range data.

https://github.com/geocommons/geocoder

Licence GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE https://github.com/geocommons/geocoder/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

Rest of the World:

The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

http://www.geonames.org/export/free-geocoding.html

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  • Thanks for suggestions. It will be good if we get a tool which can be used with other countries data.
    – Ajinkya
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 5:27
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Gisgraphy use geonames AND openstreetmap data(total 47 millions of entries). I think it is actually the best opensource geocoder because it includes a full stack for geocoding and importing data.

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  • Thanks for suggestion. We want to GeoCode address string, which is the best suitable option out of geonames and openstreetmap?
    – Ajinkya
    Commented Jan 17, 2012 at 5:25
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Nokia's Here.com offers free 2500 geocoding requests per day, that's a good geocoding tool where Navteq data overperforms other geodata sources.

i suggest combining all the geocoders to get the best result.

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For geocoding Texas A&M Geoservices is probably the cheapest route and it is pretty accurate. I got 2,500 credits for free when I signed up to test it out, and purchased from there. -Kelsi

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  • Could you please edit your question to include a link?
    – Paul
    Commented May 28, 2014 at 18:22
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You can easily try JDONREFv4 with ElasticSearch but data is not included.

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    Welcome to GIS@SE, it is more appropriate to provide links and qualifications in you answer to the solution you suggested. Best Regards.
    – Mark Cupitt
    Commented Oct 25, 2014 at 11:08
  • Welcome to GIS@SE, adding links and qualifications to the answer you provided make sit easier for other users. Best Regards
    – Mark Cupitt
    Commented Oct 25, 2014 at 11:11
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http://www.tigergeocoder.com/ using TIGER 2013 data, ready to run your own server instance in Amazon EC2 cloud and geocode 1,000,000+ per day.

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