On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:17:42PM -0700, Rich Gibson wrote: > geocoder.us (which Schuyler wrote, and I run) is also open source, > written in Perl, and using the Tiger data. > > If you get SRC's up on a public web service let me know, I'd love to > do some tests to see if they are handling things that geocoder.us > doesn't.
You mean the one at http://geocoder.us? Yes, that's pretty good too. I whined about it not being able to find my address (on 2308 South St.) and within a week, somebody (you?) fixed the code and then it could find me. Gotta love open source! Problems gets fixed fast. We should definitely try to test the SRC tool in the forge of public scrutiny, too! But there's others too. Daniel Egnor's C-based geocoder (see http://ofb.net/~egnor/google.html) is worth a look if you can't deal with Perl (which I got into before I learned some Perl), and Philip Holmstrad's "The Geocoding Blog" (http://batchgeocode.blogspot.com/), the "voice" of the (free) Batch Geocoding site at www.batchgeocode.com/ needs a mention too. Are there any others in the geocoding game? I'm sort of curious to determine where the state of the art is at this point. I use a fairly expensive commercial geocoder now (MapInfo MapMarker) which is rather good, and scales well, but I'd be happy as a pig in a wallow to find an open source solution just as good that didn't cost quite so much. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
