There are many geocoders, the most known are Google Maps, Bing Maps and OpenStreetMap. The former two are commercial services which provide an API interface. The latter is a collaborative open source project which provides both APIs and raw data. All solutions pose some problems to companies that need to integrate geocoding information in their private information systems. The GeocodIT project leverages the many existing linked (open) data and the semantic web practices to develop a near-to-zero maintenance private geocoder. The project, freely available to GitHub, exposes:
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