cross-posted from: https://linkage.ds8.zone/post/517080
I have over 700 street addresses that ultimately need to become a category or group of favourites in #OSMand. In the past I used a web service called something like nomenatum. I don’t think that option still exists. This article suggests batch encoding on this site, claiming it’s gratis but it looks like a costly subscription.
I must say that using a service to do the job of software is not a great idea. We have #OpenStreetMaps. In principle, OSM and a tool should be able to handle this offline without a service.
Of course it’s possible to search each address by hand in OSMand and then save the location. It would be absurdly labor intensive but it proves that a service is not needed, in principle.
Is there any way to feed a list of addresses to OSMand?
Or is there a linux app that can do this work, ideally offline?
In my case I need geocoding because I am starting with addresses, not coordinates.
Nonetheless, I am amazed to hear that chatgpt can write software like that. I am getting out of touch because I boycott Cloudflare, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. So I appreciate the tip. Theoretically I could make use of that for my 2nd step of going from DB to GPX file, but I’ll be tempted to try something like gpsbabel first.