Storable Geocoding/reverse Geocoding services

Question

Im currently looking into an easy way to query and store Latitude/Longitude for a given address. There are a plentitude of services out there, but none actually allows me to store the data I retieve (i.e. Google Maps API TOS, Yahoo! Maps API TOS). As I wan't to use them for a distance search I can't really query the data on the fly.

Are there any services that acutally allow to store the location you get for an adress? And I want to do it more or less worldwide.

(As a side question, I might need the other way around soon, getting from latitude/longitude to an address or place name, but this falls under the same terms as the above).

Answer 1

This blog post mentions an API: http://blog.davehawes.com/post/2009/06/09/A-geo-location-and-postcode-search-API-based-on-problems-Ie28099ve-solved-for-other-projects.aspx

I found it by looking on Free The Postcode: http://www.freethepostcode.org/

I think this is only suitable for UK postcodes.