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

2008-11-11 Thread Frank Warmerdam
(Orkney)Toru Mori wrote: Apart from technical design, geocoder is useless without data :) Address systems are varied and messy, at least here in Japan and in other Asia region. For example, Japan has more than 3 systems. Additionally it is very tough to get good enough data. There is no

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

2008-11-11 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Yes, you are correct, but this is not a reason for not trying. For example, US, Canada, and most (all?) of Europe could be represented by a single engine. It is likely, that large chunks of the rest of the world can be represented by a similar engine, and then there will be a bunch of exceptions,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Language Specific Lists Summary

2008-11-11 Thread Christopher Schmidt
All, From my previous thread, I've come up with the following list of foreign langauge OSGeo discussion lists: * French: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/francophone * Japanese: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeojapan-discuss * Italian:

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

2008-11-11 Thread RAVI KUMAR
I await eagerly Ravi Kumar --- On Wed, 11/12/08, Andrew Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Andrew Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing? To: 'OSGeo Discussions' discuss@lists.osgeo.org Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 12:11 AM Hi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Language Specific Lists Summary

2008-11-11 Thread Ari Jolma
Christopher Schmidt kirjoitti: My understanding is that each of these lists would be supportive of users who, for example, were having a problem with OpenLayers and needed help getting more help due to their inability to speak English. It appears that there are also the following language

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Language Specific Lists Summary

2008-11-11 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:32:17PM +0100, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: luckily the Dutch are pretty English-minded, so 99,9% of the people will be able to ask the question in English, which would be my preferred way. If people really can't speak English, yeah they can come to the Dutch