GEOCODING?

[Eric Buddington]

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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Bret A. Schuhmacher wrote:

> Is there a publicly available way to get the lat/lon values for a street 
> address? I'm looking for an affordable (<$100? free?)  geocoding system. 
> Anyone know of such a beast?

TIGER/LINE files contain the data you need. If those files are freely 
distributable, I can make them available via FTP. Does anyone know?

I am currently writing C++ code to parse TIGER/LINE files. I can also 
send you a copy of that, if it would be useful.

-Eric Buddington