The Meta-Geocoding module from Spatialytics ETL is a tool used to geocode data by using existing external geocoding engines (via exposed Web Services / APIs). It can use many geocoding engines – Open source or not, free or not – that are known on the market. Among these engines are:
here.com geocoding service
$ 99 per month
Geocodio: Geo Coding Service
Convert US street addresses into map coordinates and map coordinates into addresses in a snap. The first 2,500 lookups per day are free and additional lookups are $.001 (or $1 per 1,000 addresses).
Why is the United States of America so much wealthier than other countries?
The US has a phenomenal geographic advantage: the number of deep water ports and the amount of arable land accessible by rivers.
The US Atlantic seaboard has more deep water ports than the rest of the Western hemisphere combined. Add in the vast west coast ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles, and Oakland and the US has an extraordinary advantage. Ports are major drivers of commerce and make trade fast and easy, freeing up large amounts of capital for other things like loans, investments and other financial instruments.
The US is also a continental state, with an an enormous and converging river system at its heart. What’s more, those rivers are almost completely navigable and surround by the most productive farm land in the world. In fact, the US has more miles of navigable riverbanks adjacent to arable land than the rest of the world combined. Think about that.
Russia has rivers but they are iced over much of the year, all flow away from one another, which makes trades slow and expensive. Russian rivers most flow northwards into the Arctic, which is an economic deadend.