2008/11/12 Anton Patrushev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, >From my point of view there is nothing really impossible in making international geocoder tool.
Well, but you can define (as you point) a plugin based address normalization API, and every actor interested in a given address system implementation, could develop its own plugin. gvSIG project is developing something similar: http://subversion.gvsig.org/gvSIG/trunk/extensions/extNormalization/ a GUI plugin client to create dialogs for address normalization. http://subversion.gvsig.org/gvSIG/trunk/libraries/libGeocoding/ library for Geocoding and address normalization. Best regards. We just have to admit that we can't make one tool for each and every > address system in the world. > But geocoding is nothing more than just address string parsing and > having it parsed to a set of address entities just match it with > particular fields and geometry from the data set. > > My idea is to use syntax and lexical analysis tools (the same we use > for making compilers) and set of rules (grammar) for each address > system, which we can call a plugin for the geocoding engine. > It means that most of work would be transfered from core engine > developers to plugin developers. It is also a perfect task to split to > local communities - to develop a plugin for a local address system > according to the main engine specification. > > Anton. > > P.S. Andrew, indeed, it would be nice to separate mailing lists. > > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Andrew Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Thank you for the great posts and discussion! > > > > I'm thinking given the interest, it may be time to create a separate > mailing > > list for each of the OpenGeocoder and OpenRouter initiatives. If no one > > disagrees, we'll do this and I'll share the lists here so people can > opt-in > > to the conversation. > > > > Andrew > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross > > Sent: November 10, 2008 2:17 PM > > To: 'OSGeo Discussions' > > Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing? > > > > Thank you everyone for the great response to this post. > > > > I'd like to poll everyone's thoughts regarding the appropriate next > steps. > > It seems to me we have good support for this initiative. > > > > It isn't as clear to me yet what the best way forward is. My instincts > are > > leaning towards spending time to capture requirements, identify key use > > cases, and crucial standards. The thinking is that with this information > > captured, we're in a better position to review the implementations > available > > to identify which candidates are best positioned to satisfy those needs. > > > > I would like to echo Andrew Turner's comments that we're focusing on > API's > > that can be used offline rather than a web service. (though it's good to > see > > great web service projects out there!) > > > > Input, thoughts, feedback are greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, > > > > Andrew > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross > > Sent: November 5, 2008 7:59 PM > > To: OSGEO Discussion list > > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing? > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > A few of us have been talking and thought the timing might be right to > try > > and start projects to work on Geocoding and Routing. We're still > gathering > > information and checking to learn who's interested. > > > > If you are interested, please check out the following wiki's and add your > > name in the section you are interested in. > > > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder > > > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenRouter > > > > There are experts out there that are far more knowledgeable about > Geocoding > > and Routing than I am. To these good people: please feel empowered to > make > > modifications, provide feedback in whatever way you feel most > comfortable. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Alvaro Zabala Ordóñez [EMAIL PROTECTED] alvaro.zabala[en]juntadeandalucia[punto]es Tlf: 954 995 572 Gabinete de Normalización y Calidad Servicio de Coordinación y Desarrollo de Sistemas Horizontales. D.G. de Innovación y Administraciones Públicas. Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa, Junta de Andalucía
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