[Geowanking] Open Source Geocoder Released Today

[Dan Greening]

We have a Java-based Tiger/LINE geocoder (operating within our EJB3/ 
J2EE based environment, but it could be refactored to be non-J2EE),  
and I have long thought that it might be better placed into open- 
source.  It has some internationalization hooks, but we would like to  
take that further.  Please let me know if you are currently working  
on or contemplating a Java geocoder, and would be able to contribute  
to this work.

Dan R. Greening, Ph.D.,  CEO BigTribe Corporation,  http:// 
dan.greening.name/contact.htm


On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:22 PM, David Bitner wrote:

> Can't we all get along :)
>
> Here are the main distinctions that I see between different geocoders:
>
> TIGER vs. Other usually Shapefile derived roads
> Database vs. Flat File Indexes
> Batch processing vs. One off or web
> Interpolation between segment ends vs. Along the line
> Hand parsed addresses vs. automatic parsing
>
> What pieces can we build in common?  What can we do to cross some of
> these lines?  This is clearly something that a lot of people need and
> there are a number of folks pulling in different directions.
>
> There is a mailing list at the aforementioned http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/
> that has been silent for quite a while that could be used for this
> discussion.
>
> Would anyone be interested in having a mini-forum for geocoding  
> over IRC?
>
> There will of course be different needs that will necessitate
> different approaches due to speed/scalability/accuracy, but there are
> a number of pieces (ie address parsing) that it would definitely
> behoove us to collaborate and find some good solutions that we can
> refine together.
>
> David
>
> On 4/25/06, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at refractions.net> wrote:
>> Also there is <http://dotproject.sauder.ubc.ca/pagc/> this one  
>> from UBC.
>>
>> P
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:22 AM, David Bitner wrote:
>>
>>> There is also the geocoder project at http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/
>>> projects/geocoder
>>> that has stalled for quite a while now that hopes to create a
>>> configurable geocoder to use any appropriate user inputed data.
>>>
>>> On 4/24/06, Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:17:42PM -0700, Rich Gibson wrote:
>>>>> geocoder.us (which Schuyler wrote, and I run) is also open source,
>>>>> written in Perl, and using the Tiger data.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you get SRC's up on a public web service let me know, I'd  
>>>>> love to
>>>>> do some tests to see if they are handling things that geocoder.us
>>>>> doesn't.
>>>>
>>>> You mean the one at http://geocoder.us? Yes, that's pretty good
>>>> too. I
>>>> whined about it not being able to find my address (on 2308 South
>>>> St.) and
>>>> within a week, somebody (you?) fixed the code and then it could
>>>> find me. Gotta
>>>> love open source! Problems gets fixed fast. We should definitely
>>>> try to
>>>> test the SRC tool in the forge of public scrutiny, too!
>>>>
>>>> But there's others too. Daniel Egnor's C-based geocoder (see
>>>> http://ofb.net/~egnor/google.html) is worth a look if you can't
>>>> deal with
>>>> Perl (which I got into before I learned some Perl), and Philip
>>>> Holmstrad's
>>>> "The Geocoding Blog" (http://batchgeocode.blogspot.com/), the
>>>> "voice" of
>>>> the (free) Batch Geocoding site at www.batchgeocode.com/ needs a
>>>> mention
>>>> too. Are there any others in the geocoding game?
>>>>
>>>> I'm sort of curious to determine where the state of the art is at
>>>> this
>>>> point. I use a fairly expensive commercial geocoder now (MapInfo
>>>> MapMarker)
>>>> which is rather good, and scales well, but I'd be happy as a pig  
>>>> in a
>>>> wallow to find an open source solution just as good that didn't  
>>>> cost
>>>> quite so much.
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