Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] The existence (and value of) "clean" geocoding
tools?
Thanks for the good variety of responses!
Certainly there is no way to perfectly automate geocoding. That's just
a very hard problem and, as Stephen mentioned, there are so many
possible spelling/fo
Thanks for the good variety of responses!
Certainly there is no way to perfectly automate geocoding. That's just
a very hard problem and, as Stephen mentioned, there are so many
possible spelling/formatting differences that it's impossible to plan
for every case.
Although, to steer this awa
It seems as though the "where is a good geocoding engine" typically
devolves into either "you need data", or "it's tough, and here's an
explicit explanation why". I'm surprised that there are rarely answers
(or projects) that say, "here's a project, it needs data, but just get
it into this form, an
David Dearing wrote:
Hi. I just recently stumbled across OSGeo and have poked around to try
and get a feel for the different projects, but still have a lingering
question. Forgive me if this isn't the appropriate channel to be asking
this.
It seems that there is a solid focus on mapping, im
Hello David,
A good geocoding algorithm will only produce good/great results with a
good streetbase. Thats the first step. get a excellent street base.
There are some OSprojects that will geocode for you. Im developing one
for my Bsc thesis based on PostgreSQL. I adapted it from a previous
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:53:34PM -0700, David Dearing wrote:
> Hi. I just recently stumbled across OSGeo and have poked around to try
> and get a feel for the different projects, but still have a lingering
> question. Forgive me if this isn't the appropriate channel to be asking
> this.
>
>
Hi. I just recently stumbled across OSGeo and have poked around to try
and get a feel for the different projects, but still have a lingering
question. Forgive me if this isn't the appropriate channel to be asking
this.
It seems that there is a solid focus on mapping, image manipulation, and
