Try the YQL (yahoo) geocoding api Yahoo Place Finder. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Chitra Saha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:csaha@imsa.edu" target="_blank">csaha@imsa.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">But what open source software tool should I choose to find the accurate point on the map when only the address and zip is entered in the system.<br>
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Thank you<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Nick Kendall wrote:<br>
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900913 friend, plenty if geo lookup tools and tables <br>
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On Oct 9, 2012, at 6:57 AM, <a href="mailto:csaha@imsa.edu" target="_blank">csaha@imsa.edu</a> wrote:<br>
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Need to geocode the student addresses using the regular 5-digit zip<br>
codes. Need to find the accurate point on the map, so in a Latitude and<br>
Longitude environment that should suffice for our specific data needs with<br>
respect to answering the question of what students belong to what<br>
congressional district.<br>
I know ArcGIS for Desktop software will geocode the student addresses and<br>
get points on the map. What is the equivalent tool that I can use to<br>
achieve my first goal?<br>
Then we need to create two other layers one for the representative<br>
districts and the other for the senate districts. Then we have to use the<br>
Spatial Join tool in the toolbox to combine the tables and give us one<br>
attribute table that includes all of our geocode located points and what<br>
congressional district they belong to.<br>
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So what should I use to solve the following issue?<br>
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Kind Regards<br>
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Chitra<br>
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