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C'mon Jilles, as we say in Germany "no risk, no fun"

Thanks, amigo. If you want to come by and show me how it's done, you are more than welcome. As it happens, yes, we were a family fo four.

you can do a lot of things. You can live as a hunter/gatherer. The question is do you want to live like that?

To my knowledge there are no rules against it, it is just a major and expensive plumbing project requiring redoing the whole kitchen. And so as a landlord why bother, you will always find someone willing to rent, no matter how unlivable the place. This dynamic was hardly unique to the Barbican, it was the reality of being a tenant in London, and ultimately one of the reasons I left. London's housing stock is just terrible compared to every other city I've lived in.

not seven, but yes, I had two small children at the time

If you know where to look there are still a few old wall maps left in the Barbican that show the old high walks

I lived there for three years, rented a flat. Living in the Barbican was fantastic, livign in my flat was not fantastic. I used to joke it was a time machine to 1965. There was not only no dishwasher, there was literally no space for a dishwasher. Day one that seems funny, a few days later less so. I was spending a fortune in rent to spend 30 minutes every day handwashing my dishes. I did know people who had bought and renovated, they had amazing places. Oddly on my hall of 10 there were 10 flats of which 4 were empty. I don't mean someone just came occasionally I mean 100% empty with no furniture, with rich people just using it as an investment. Overall though was a greart experience, it's a fantasic place.

Possibly, but they only cover the US

If you think that is a fair trade I would love the chance to talk with you and save you A LOT of money.

Our experience (10+ years of offering a geocoding service) is that many people (of course depending on exact needs and use case) are significantly over-spending and could be using open data to reduce costs by 80+%.

Happy to chat if interested

I suppose you can't please everyone.

correct

well the pricing models are per request, but just in easy to understand buckets (small, medium, large). Our experience is most people prefer this as they know exactly what they will spend, there is never a surprising bill.

That said we do have enterprise customers with other pricing models to meet their exact needs. Please get in touch if we can help you.

IP geolocation is a different (albeit similar) topic than geocoding.

See: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-ip-geolocation-differs-f...

There is a list here (vs. Google) https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-switch-from-google-ma...

though really the key difference is the fact that we use open data. Googles data is not open, this significatly restricts what you can do with the data.

And here is a similar comparison versus running your own Nominatim https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-switch-from-nominatim

Please let us know if anything is out of date or can be made more clear. Thanks.

Hi,

Great. The only real answer is you should sign up for a free trial (takes 2 min, requires just an email address) and test with your actual input data. Which language are you working in? We have SDKs for almost all (30+) and detailed tutorials for many: https://opencagedata.com/sdks

You can also test manually on our demo page: https://opencagedata.com/demo

You can do a lot to help us by formatting the input data well: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-format-your-geocoding...

re: company names, it is a real challenge as they introduce a lot of noise.

Please can you follow up by email with specific questions: support @ opencagedata.com

I hope we have the chance to work with you

I'm sorry but not surprised to read that you had a bad experience with positionstack. They have been unreliable for years, and worse yet unresponsive about it.

If you still need geocoding very happy to have a conversation, or you can just check out our site: https://opencagedata.com

We use only open data, you can store it forever (even if no longer a customer) and use it for whatever you like.

Hi, 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.

How many of the twitter followers are live humans?

yes, of course. The question is have all the developers writing their own code to deal with zip codes also adapted?

it is safe to assume nothing.

Please see: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes...

I write this as someone who grew up in the ZIP code 09180

There are many problems with zip codes / postal codes but the biggest two we see are:

a. Excel treats them as numbers instead of strings of digits and thus drops the leading 0

b. Developers make assumptions about postal codes based on how they work (or more usually how the developer incorrectly thinks they work) in their own country and these assumptions absolutely do NOT hold in other countries.

A relevant guide to geocoding and postal codes: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-think-about-postcodes...

Not enough people wanted to check in. Those that did were all of the same demographic. So lots of check-ins at bars / restaurants, none at "boring" shops., doctor's office, etc. Then, like any fad, checking in was no longer fun or cool.

be the change you want. Start fixing your area.

There is a whole fund full: https://calmfund.com

And other fund with this same model: https://tinyseed.com

As someone who is burdened with several thousands in filing costs every year (not tax, I mean the cost of paying an accountant to deal with the filing, which is required for all US citizens), because I have a non-US business, please fill me in on the benefits.

Also more and more non-US banks won't take US citizens as customers because they don't want to deal with the US's FATCA requirements.

No other developed country has these sorts of requirements for non-resident citizens.

Obviously there is fraud everywhere. Still, I have a higher level of basic trust when dealing with a GmbH than someone who created their Ltd Co 3 hours ago. It's just a sign they are a more serious/stable business counter party to deal with.

Oh for sure it could be much better in Germany, and I hope that rapidly becomes the case. Definitely digitization needs to come faster.

My complaint is simply people imagining it is perfect elsewhere. Really that is not the case, no where is perfect. All the people chiming in about the US being so easy, yes, wonderful. Now let's talk about healthcare and how your health insurance is tied to your employer. Everyone who is extolling how simple the UK is, that's lovely. What a shame about brexit though.

The point is there are major pains absolutely everywhere.

Hah! Americans have to file US tax whether they live in the US or not.

I have lived/worked/banked in four countries (UK, US, ES, DE).

Germany is not at the cutting edge, but it is far from the worse. The interactions I have had with bureaucratic systems in Thüringen have all been entirely fine. Friendly people, clear process, done quickly. Obviously that is only an n=1. It is a rural area that is not overloaded as Berlin is.

Which country would you consider "modern"? My experiences:

In the UK the way you prove who you are is literally a physical copy of your water bill.

Spain, some things work well enough, others are insane.

US, massive variability from state to state and government department.

I now have a German GmbH and had a UK Ltd in the past for 10 years. Definitely there is more seriousness/trustworthiness to a GmbH.

I am not sure there are "countless" scams in the UK, but yes, in 10 years of commercial operation did come across a few oddities. Example - a customer (UK Ltd) who declared bankruptcy owing us a money and then then next day founded a new Ltd company and tried to act like he didn't owe us the money because it was a new entity.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-packaged_insolvency

I have not come across this kind of thing in Germany.

Really I think this is overdone. I fully appreciate Berlin is disfunctional, but in other regions (I live in Thüringen) things go quite quickly.