[postgis-devel] PSC Vote: Bringing PAGC address standardizer into the PostGIS code base

[Paul Ramsey]

+0

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> I've no objections to host PAGC address standardizer in the extra/
> subdir of PostGIS code base, if its maintainer (Steve?) finds that
> useful.
>
> +0
>
> --strk;
>
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 11:19:42PM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
>> A while back Steve Woodbridge  segmented out the address standardizer logic
>> that is used in PAGC geocoder so that it works in PostgreSQL.  This many
>> postgis tiger geocoder users have been using for address standardizing
>> (instead of the clunky normalizer one packaged with postgis tiger geocoder).
>>
>> It's gotten a bit confusing where to turn to since the code base of that is
>> separate and when people have bugs about it they post to PostGIS ticket
>> tracker.
>>
>> Eventually I'd like to work with Steve to make a next generation geocoder
>> that uses this standardizer that would be packaged with PostGIS.
>> Although we can argue the address standardizer can stand on its own, I think
>> most people using it use it with PostGIS and generally as part of the
>> geocoding process.   It would make packaging it by package maintainers and
>> standardizing on its use a lot easier (which is one of the things Linux
>> folks have complained about that its not already available when they install
>> PostGIS from repo).
>>
>> I've documented the request here:
>>
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2387
>>
>>
>> Are all people (PSC in particular) okay with this or are their concerns.
>>
>> Of course this means we also need to give Steve commit rights to our code
>> base.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>>
>>
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