Geocoding

Today I prepared a short presentation on GeoFlow. I was not very impressed by it, but it is still in preview so I hope it will improve. Most significant misses is that you cannot use it to enrich a data set. It uses Bing  Maps to geocode you dataset, but unfortunatly there seems to be no way to save this data and add it to the dataset for use with ex. Maps in SSRS. This still has to be done with SSIS packages or with heavy scripting or other hack-is ways. GeoFlow provides some nice basic plotting, but for doing anything away from a very limited template it's useless.

I learned of Requests, a nice way to work with http-requests in Python. For instance to grab a GPS coordinate from a request to Google maps. Something that you can do 2.500 times a day with no cost.