Hi Matthew, It is a great plugin you wrote here. I will test it as soon as possible. But, just one question: will you propose an input field to import adress text file in the futur?
Regards, Y. Le Lundi 23 Avril 2007 00:24, Matthew Perry a écrit : > Hey everyone, > > It's been a rainy weekend here, a good time to learn the python qgis > bindings. I decided to implement a geocoder plugin which would use web > services to do all the tough work and the delimited text provider to > load the results into qgis. What started mostly as a learning > experiment turned into something that might actually be useful ;-) > > Right now it's built on top of the Yahoo geocoder which is, IMO, the > best out there.. very flexible about the input format (see the > attached screenshots). Geopy is used to interact with the geocoding > services so it could potentially support other engines such as > geocoder.us, virtual earth, google, etc. > > The user interface is very easy, enter list of addresses/placenames > seperated by a line break, pick an output file and go. To be > legitimate, you should also sign up for a yahoo api key, though the > 'YahooDemo' key will work ok for testing purposes. > > Here's the install process (assuming you already have python, pyqt4, > qgis bindings, etc. set up): > svn checkout http://perrygeo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/qgis/geocode > cd geocode > vi Makefile > # change install directory if needed > sudo make install > > This is just a rough cut, alpha product so there are probably many > things that could go wrong ;-) Enjoy. -- Yves Jacolin --- http://yjacolin.gloobe.org _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
