I am looking to gecode some address information (convert addresses to lon/lat pairs). I found the geodcode function in GMT.jl, and it looks simple enough. But, is it possible to avoid sending the addresses to a web service and download an OpenStreetMap dataset for a region and use that file instead? …

Sorry, don’t understand the question. Yes the GMT’s geocoder uses a free web service with an access provided via GDAL and you cannot use it without that service. I also don’t understand the reference to OpenStreetMap. It’s not used at all.

Yeah, I think I worded my question poorly. The OSM piece was just that the webservice used is OSM_NOMINATIM, so that’s where that came from but is beside the point. Really my concern is more about feeding addresses into a web service and the possible privacy issues that may create. So I was hoping …

Ah, I had forgotten the service name.

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Oh yeah, I saw that one too as an option!

Possible to geocode from file using GMT?

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