On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:34 AM, David ``Smith'' <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll concede that there's a "me too" aspect involved with trying to > make OSM work for geocoding like the big names do. But that doesn't > mean there aren't legitimate motivations. OSM's street map is > arguably better than the big names in many places, including ones that > started with a TIGER import. I'd love to tell people to use OSM > rather than Google, but most casual users will dismiss it if they > enter their home address and nothing comes up.
It'd be much easier than importing TIGER addresses into OSM if you just used the TIGER data itself to get a latitude/longitude pair and then fed that lat/lon into OSM. In fact, it's basically already been written: http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/US.pm use Geo::Coder::US; Geo::Coder::US->set_db( "geocoder.db" ); my ($ora) = Geo::Coder::US->geocode( "1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, 95472" ); print "http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=$ora->{lat}&lon=$ora->{long}&zoom=16"; Just add <form> processing. Yes, this wouldn't be editable, but does the TIGER data really need editing anyway? TIGER can be a fallback, after a more accurate search of the OSM data fails. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
