Happy Friday everyone 
I'm creating a store locator site for a client and they want a "Map It' feature for each store (that would just link to the Google Maps, Mapquest map, etc.).
The problem I have is with the international addresses. There is a store in Melbourne, Hong Kong and Tokyo and I haven't found a good way to map those addresses.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your help!
Someone just suggested that I get the longitude/latitude of each store and geocode their locations onto a map somehow.. not sure if that's the only way (would be more work that it's worth probably). Is there a site out there that gives you maps to geocode onto?
I can't believe Google/Yahoo/Mapquest doesn't have street maps for these huge cities. :bemused:
Geocoding data is held differently on a per-country basis. Some countries will charge you for it, and/or require administrative hurdles to get these data.
If you can't enter lat/long manually, you'll have a complex problem.
Here in the UK, the government / ordnance survey does the rediculous thing of charging a lot of money for access to these data.
Mark
FreeGIS.org would be a good place to start.
see here for free geo-data, this may not be quite what you're looking for though.
I know of a project which was building a database resolving places to coordinates but I can't for the life of me remember what it's called. If anyone knows of it could you let me know? I could do with just simple data like that.