There is also the geocoder project at http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/projects/geocoder that has stalled for quite a while now that hopes to create a configurable geocoder to use any appropriate user inputed data.
On 4/24/06, Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
