Speeding up geocoder

From the documentation - https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME-Form-Documentation/FME-Transformers/Transformers/geocoder-pkg.htm

OpenStreetMaps’s Nominatim server, while publicly available, is not intended for heavy use and has several usage restrictions which make it inappropriate for use with FME in almost all cases: https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/nominatim/.

What you’re likely experiencing is throttling/usage restrictions. The Geocoder does support a range of other services which may be faster, some of these however will have a cost associated with them to use.

Where (i.e. which country) are the addresses located? If it’s all in a single country and they have a free geocoding service that may be an alternative.

I’ve used OpenCage a bit in the past (always stayed under the free tier treshold), to be honest I can’t remember how fast it was, but again it may be worth looking into.

Thanks! All adresses are in the Netherlands, I will dive into the OpenCage idea, found also some others but often there is a limit like 5000 requests a day for a free account.

Thanks for your reply. As far as I understand the policy right it's allowed to download your stuff but then with restriction of 1 request per second. I will check whether are affordable alternatives between the other providers in the Geocoder transformer