Hello,
I am very new to geocoding. My experience to date has been using algorithms
to determine long/lat for an address and returning all addresses within a
radius around a zip code.
I am now working with a youth sports organization that is dealing with
multiple city entities to allocate field space for participants. We are in
the middle of a metropolitan area and the cities allocate field usage based
on the percentage of participants living within their city limits. Zip code
alone does not address this require because a zip code may fall into
multiple cities and/or school districts.
We have all our participants geocoded with long/lat. We can get shapefile
from either our state government (http://www.gis.leg.mn/html/download.html)
or from TIGER. I have used Quantam GIS to load the shapefile and then
overlay with our participants. This looks cool, but we are dealing with
5000+ addresses.
We would like to produce a report for our 5000+ addresses with the city
limits and school district they fall within. This way we can summarize the
information for the city administrators we are dealing with.
I think the "point in polygon" algorithms is the approach we need to take
(could be wrong). I have taken a look at some various APIs, but have been
left confused and uncertain about the direction to go.
Can anyone provide some direction on how we can get started with using the
GeoTools API to load a shapefile form TIGER and then programically determine
the city of residence and school district for each participant?
Thanks!
Dave
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