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Empty result when geocoding address in Sweden using MMQGIS

Geographic Information Systems Asked by Viktor Sulakvelidze-Skantz on July 27, 2021

I am trying to geocode an address in QGIS. I am aware of the MMQGIS Plugin and I have been trying to use that.

The dialogue window appears as though it is catered to US addresses as it contains a column for "State". The address that I want to geocode is Swedish. The CSV file in which I have the address is formatted in UTF-8. I also have the Google API Key.

When the geocoding is done a new layer is added in the panel but it doesn’t contain any information and nothing appears on the map. You can see some screenshots below.

A CSV file:
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My empty result after Geocoding:
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3 Answers

Did you try to use the OSM-Geocoding? Otherwise the fault is likely to be in the Formatting of the CSV.

Answered by Ben on July 27, 2021

This is a limitation of the plugin. It accepts ASCII characters only. Try changing special characters by it's nearest ASCII equivalent: ä by a etc. Otherwise, use another Geocoding method.

See here for details:

https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/382550/88814

Answered by Babel on July 27, 2021

Sounds silly but if you work on Windows you may try using the ANSI encoding (I know that UTF-8 should be used), see the image below

result

For more details, please check What is ANSI format?.


As @Babel suggested, I also tried using ANSI encoding with other addresses that possess Latin and special Latin characters. They were successfully geocoded with MMQGIS, please see the image below.

result2

Unfortunately, it did not work with non-Latin characters.

They can be encoded in UTF-8, viewed in Notepad++ but not geocoded in MMQGIS. no_result_utf

They could not be encoded in ANSI, some details were described in this comment. no_result_ansi


References:

Answered by Taras on July 27, 2021

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