{"id":5079,"date":"2009-08-07T21:32:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2009-08-07T21:32:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:32:50","slug":"the-first-practical-kyoto-address-search-yahoogoogle-do-not-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-first-practical-kyoto-address-search-yahoogoogle-do-not-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Practical Kyoto Address Search Yahoo\/Google Do Not Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geodosu.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/geodosu_ti_logo.gif\" alt=\"geodosu_ti_logo\" title=\"geodosu_ti_logo\" width=\"197\" height=\"44\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5080\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you ever lived in Japan, you know that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_addressing_system#Address_parts\">Japanese address system<\/a> is uneasy for people who get used to the western system on which all streets have a name and name+number identify the single location.<br \/>\nIn Japan, addresses are rather area name.<br \/>\nTwo Giants Yahoo! Japan and Google have been working well with this different system and providing pretty good service to Japanese web users. Out of 4 nationwide map companies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenrin.co.jp\/english\/index.html\">Zenrin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapple.co.jp\/\">Shoubunsha<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incrementp.co.jp\/english\/index.html\">Increment P<\/a> and Alps-sha), Yahoo! Japan helped bankrupted Alps-sha and merged it in April 2008. Google Maps is supported by Zenrin&#8217;s data.<br \/>\nHowever, Kyoto, the thousand-years-old former capital, has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_addressing_system#Kyoto\">yet another different method of address notation<\/a> besides the official postal address, and that casual ones are used daily and on travel guidebooks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/geodosu-kyoto-diagram-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/geodosu-kyoto-diagram-screenshot-377x400.png\" alt=\"geodosu-kyoto-diagram-screenshot\" title=\"geodosu-kyoto-diagram-screenshot\" width=\"377\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5081\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/geodosu.com\/\">Geodosu (&#8220;-dosu&#8221; is a typical Kyoto dialect suffix) Kyoto Traditional Address Search<\/a>, now supports both Japanese and English, offers what Yahoo\/Google Maps cannot do, search by the addresses which Kyoto people are really using. Kyoto geocoder API is also provided.<br \/>\nThe Geodosu project is run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locapoint.com\/en\/index.html\">Locazing Inc.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/an-nai.jp\/\">Annai LLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever lived in Japan, you know that Japanese address system is uneasy for people who get used to the western system on which all streets have a name and name+number identify the single location. In Japan, addresses are rather area name. Two Giants Yahoo! Japan and Google have been working well with this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/the-first-practical-kyoto-address-search-yahoogoogle-do-not-offer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The First Practical Kyoto Address Search Yahoo\/Google Do Not Offer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[120,188,242,793,1075,1401,1662,1812,2039,2133,2210,3247,3323,4151,4244],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-address","tag-alpssha","tag-annai","tag-culture","tag-english","tag-google","tag-increment-p","tag-japanese","tag-kyoto","tag-locasing","tag-map","tag-search","tag-shobunsha","tag-yahoo","tag-zenrin","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}