Hi all,

Apologies for the cross posting.

Over the past month or so I have been playing with OpenData for Australia. This is a work in progress, but I thought some of you might be interested.

## Maps
http://imaptools.com:8080/demo/australia.html

   394 australia-10m-map.inc
  3663 australia-250k-map.inc
   423 australia-2.5m-map.inc
   190 australia.map
   705 etc/symbols.txt
  5375 total

I want to revist the mapfile at some point and build a non-topo version with simplifed styling. The mapfile is ready for use with mapcache and I'll enable that at some point, but at the moment its draw on demand. It took a lot of work to get the Topo map styled to their standards. Unfortunately they do not yet offer the detailed street layer data, so when you zoom in you will see green dots representing the GNAF address file geocode points.

## Reverse Geocoding
click on the map and it geocodes the lat/lon into a popup.

## Geocoder
http://imaptools.com:8080/demo/imt-geo-australia.php

The geocoder is also integrated into the map, enter the address and click [Go]. The geocoder is built on a modified version of the postgis address_standardizer2 extension. I'll be checking in the remaining changes into postgis when I have a chance. The latest and greatest is always located here [1]. I have added a couple of diagnostic tools to help understand how the address standardizer is working and to make it easier to evaluate how to make changes to the lexicon and grammar as you develop them for a specific data set. The address standardizer comes with sample lexicon and grammar data for about 20 countries.

[1] https://github.com/woodbri/address-standardizer

If anyone has some time and interest, I would love to get a C++ developer to code review the address standardizer, especially with an eye toward improving performance.

If you have questions, feel free to contact me on/off list.

-Steve W

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