Luma, Regina, Thank you once more. Everything is on a local machine. In fact it's a one user database (me) that I will, hopefully, use just for geocoding purposes. All clearer now.
Regards, On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Paragon Corporation <[email protected]> wrote: > No not directory where Postgres is installed. > > On Windows something like C:\gisdata or E:\gisdata > > On Linux /gisdata > > Technically you can create the folder anywhere as long as you change the > path in the generated script (or prechange it in the > *tiger.loader_variables.staging_fold* field before you generate the > script) to where you want the files put. > Note that if you put the folder on your local pc and your PostgreSQL > server is on another machine, you'll need to have shp2pgsql and psql > executables etc accessible from your local pc. > It's generally more efficient to just run from the machine you have > PostgreSQL installed because of network / bandwidth. > > Hope that helps, > Regina > http://www.postgis.us > http://postgis.net > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Andre Mano > *Sent:* Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:40 PM > *To:* PostGIS Users Discussion > *Subject:* Re: [postgis-users] TIGER geocoder > > Thank you for your report. > > I followed your suggestions but I run into one more question. > The readme file that documents the geocoder tool says it's necessary to > "Create a folder called gisdata on root of server or your local pc". > > What is considered to be the root of the server? The directory where > Postgres is installed? > > Thank you for your support, > > Andre > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Paragon Corporation <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Andre, >> >> If you plan to do geocoding, then you need to load tiger data. Next >> steps here: >> >> >> http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/postgis_installation.html#tiger_geocoder_loading_data >> >> >> Hope that helps, >> Regina >> http://www.postgis.us >> http://postgis.net >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Andre Mano >> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 16, 2014 7:22 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [postgis-users] TIGER geocoder >> >> Hi users, >> >> I am a bit lost on the necessary steps in order to use the TIGER >> geocoding tool. This is what I have done so far: >> >> # Enable geocoding capabilities >> >> CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch; >> >> CREATE EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder; >> >> >> # Test Geocoding capabilities >> >> SELECT na.address, na.streetname,na.streettypeabbrev, na.zip >> FROM normalize_address('1 Devonshire Place, Boston, MA 02109') AS na; >> >> (Returns, as expected: 1;"Devonshire";"Pl";"02109") >> >> But now I don't know exactly what I have to do. I have read the >> documentation, but still I am not very secure of what I should do. Does >> anyone here with experience with the TIGER geocoder can give me a hint? >> >> (PostgresSQL 9.3, PostGIS 2.1, Win7 Enterprise 64bits) >> >> Thank you, >> >> Andre >> >> -- >> .................................. >> André Mano >> http://opussig.blogspot.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> > > > > -- > .................................. > André Mano > http://opussig.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > -- .................................. André Mano http://opussig.blogspot.com/
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