On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Mark Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I imagine some companies have a shape file, but others will just
>> have addresses and not have Lat/Lon. Is there a geocoder we are
>> allowed to use? Perhaps we need to wait till we can geocode
>> addresses ourselves? Perhaps we cannot even use their lat/lon if
>> they have them because they may come from a geocoder we can't use.
>
> Within the US, you could use TIGER.


As the discussion on the international mailing-list shows
TIGER contains "potential addresses". Meaning that
it only tells you what range of house-numbers is reserved
for a block. Not where each house is or if a number is in use
at all.


Marcus

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