Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread Jody Garnett
Fair enough - one thing I am interested in is having an API to interact with a range of geocoder implementations. I know the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list will remind me of OpenLS - but I am not sure if that has seen any adoption in the wild (although it looks like their is a new version comming out w

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread Fischer, Brian
Here is a 7 County Metro area using the PAGC geocoder in Minnesota. Currently supports address and intersection geocoding. It has been set up as a web service open to the public. http://www.metrogis.org/data/apps/geocoder/index.shtml Here is an example web gis application making use of the web

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread John Callahan
From another perspective, people I work with have very accurate address and street data for our area (several counties in our state.) This project definitely would be beneficial to us. Having accurate data for small to medium-sized areas is probably not uncommon. - John

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread Andrew Turner
Yes Jody - this has been the common observation that tends to derail the discussion about even getting good toolsets out there. However, I would say there is at least "good enough" data to start with to seed and engine and once there is a need, the available data will get better. Andrew On Thu, N

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread Jody Garnett
I always find data is the difficulty when starting a geocoder... am I missing something? You will find a good graph module in geotools with route finding etc. Jody Andrew Ross wrote: Hi Everyone, A few of us have been talking and thought the timing might be right to try and start projects

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

2008-11-06 Thread Alvaro Zabala
Hi, I work for Andalucia's regional gobernment [1], in Spain. We have developed an open source SOA oriented geocoder, and we are going to publish it before the end of this year. It's being developed with Java, and its public API will be SOAP based. We have choosen SOAP for the geocoder's horizonta