Geocoding

[Paul Smith]

Hello All

Will geo::coder::us do geocoding on the fly. I need to generate maps on the
fly for a school district so they can produce maps of where their students
reside in the city for their different schools. In the future they would
want to tie this to census data to do some socio-economic analyses. I have
obtained the streetlines for the county in which the school district is located.

Any help and comments on possible design would be very much appreciated.
I have successfully installed mapserver on a suse linux box and both the
Itasca and the Gmap demos are working flawlessly.

Paul



On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:05:56 -0400, Jeff Portwine <jdport at VERITIME.COM> wrote:

>The best solution I've been able to find so far is the perl library
>geo::coder::us , which you can find at CPAN  (http://search.cpan.org).
>
>In order to use it, you will have to download the tiger data for the area
>you want to geocode and make a db file with the import script that comes
>with this library.
>
>-Jeff
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mauricio Leon" <mleon at SCIENTIFICINFORMATICS.COM>
>To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 3:41 PM
>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Geocoding
>
>
>>I need to implement a method for translations between a US street address
>> and a latlong coordinate (and vice versa) are there any openly available
>> tools/technologies for this purpose?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Mauricio
>>