[Freegis-list] A Question....

[Paul Ramsey]

I am not aware of any OSS geocoding software.
Adding geocoding capabilities to PostGIS would be possible, using some
of the existing postgresql text comparison functions (levenshtien,
soundex, phonex) and one new geometry function to generate the geocoded
points. However, this is not something that is on our "hit parade" of
things to do, yet. (We have one client who has slightly mentioned
wanting this, but no dollar commitment to the development at this
point.)
P.

Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:37:36PM -0600, John wrote:
> > Question: Can anyone please direct me to a Free or Open Source application
> > that will allow me to Geocode the street addresses I have - and then let me
> > use the Census data to determine what Census Block Group the address
> > belongs in?
> 
> I am not familiar with the US Census Tiger data, but the they
> should one way or another find their way into a database
> (perhaps PostgreSQL/PostGIS works for this).
> Now, depending on the strucuture and information of the Tiger
> data, you should be able to send adequate queries.
> 
> Has anyone of the US guys ever tried this?
> 
>         Jan
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