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OpenCage Blog
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OpenCage Blog is the company blog at blog.opencagedata.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite OpenCage's posts on geocoding data, OpenStreetMap, and ChatGPT falsely claiming the company's services. Most comments link them as sources; one disputes the ChatGPT post's novelty.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
OpenCage blog - updates from the OpenCage team about changes to our service and topics from the world of geo and opendata.
Most-linked posts?
- ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
What Hacker News says?
My understanding is it forbids the hosting of the government collected (and curated, e.g. with regard to military bases) data outside the country, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_dat... . See also, https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-in-korea , which relates the situation the same way. It doesn't seem like anyone is hassled for editing openstreetmap from here (and it is quit…
Comment linking /post/openstreetmap-in-korea
on “Every map of China is wrong”Submitted Using OpenStreetMap to map the Syria conflict: interview with deSyracuse as a story · 42 points
HN discussionDo you need geocoding? I ask because I am one of the makers of the OpenCage geocoder. We offer forward and reverse geocoding from open data (primarily OpenStreetMap, but also others). We're listed in the migration guide, and we'll be offering 20% off our pricing for all former Mapzen customers. Blog post about that is coming shortly. I hope we can help you. https://geocoder.opencagedata.com Edit: here's the post abo…
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on “Mapzen Shutdown”Submitted Open Geo interview – Peter Karich, GraphHopper as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHere's an interview with Steve Bennett, the creator of OpenTrees, from a little more than a year ago: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/opentrees
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on “OpenTrees: A data visualisation of publicly maintained trees around the world”Submitted Interview with the maker of OSM Buildings as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWe have started doing blog posts reviewing the various SaaS services we use: http://blog.opencagedata.com/tagged/toolsweuse so far we've covered * Baremetrics * Quaderno coming soon: * Statsbot * Hosted Graphite * StatusCake * TravisCI * Drip * TransferWise (not a SaaS service, but saves us a ton of money)
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on “Ask HN: What SaaS customer service tools does your startup use?”Submitted Good looking addresses – solving the “Berlin, Berlin” bug as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAn amazing effort, many congrats to all involved. I work on the address-formatting project, one small piece of the many used here. We currently have formatting rules for 93% of the world's 249 territories (as defined by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes), but we need help to finish things out - especially from people with local knowledge and native speakers. Even for the countries we've "finished" more tests are always usefu…
Comment linking /post/138991962708/an-update-on-address-formatting-help-needed
on “Libpostal: international street address parsing in C trained on OpenStreetMap”Submitted ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe do geocoding using open data sources https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/ and launched the product at the annual OpenStreetMap conference. Many people from the industry approached us, some blog posts, nothing really customer focused. We were sponsors of the conference and now corporate members of the OpenStreetMap foundation. We're listed in a couple of API-related directories but never made an effort to get as man…
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on “Ask HN: How did you launch your product?”Submitted OpenCage Sponsors MetaCPAN as a story · 4 points
HN discussionit already does tell people to go to sites, but it also lies about what's there. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt ChatGPT is a convincing fiction generator. Any facts it produces are purely coincidental. It's just really good at mansplaining and gaslighting people about things it knows nothing about.
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on “Google just shut down our $1M business”Submitted It's working - the virtuous circle of open data as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIts not like ChatGPT made this up. There were pre-existing YouTube tutorials and python scripts available that used OpenCage an purported to do this. OpenCage even blogged about this problem almost a year ago[1]. Honestly it looks more like OpenCage is trying to rehash the same issue for more clicks by spinning it off the hugely popular ChatGPT keywords. Wouldn't be too surprised if they created the original python…
Comment linking /post/we-can-not-convert-a-phone-number-into-a-location-sorry
on “ChatGPT is falsely recommending us for a service we don't provide”Submitted Running a security bounty program as a bootstrapped business: lessons learned as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThat was a nice project. Gave GraphHopper some visibility :) OpenCage did an interview with one of the creators Raphael Reimann: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/135637030948/open-geo-int... btw: 2019 moovel kind of merged together with FreeNow (formerly mytaxi) which was recently aquired by Lyft...
Comment linking /post/135637030948/open-geo-interview-raphael-reimann-roads-to
on “Roads to Rome (2015)”Submitted Running a security bounty program as a bootstrapped business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt keeps inventing features and command-line flags. A dozen times it presented me with code (Postgresql/PostGIS related) where it turns out a method cannot be called with those parameters. https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/dont-believe-chatgpt "TL;DR ChatGPT claims we offer an API to turn a mobile phone number into the location of the phone. We do not."
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on “Ask HN: What questions do LMMs fail with?”Submitted Interview: Julien Minet – OpenArdenneMap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tools we use: ipinfo.io as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Crowdsourcing transit info for Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanke, etc. as a story · 1 points
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