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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Hi Paul,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>You might want to look at the PAGC project (www.pagcgeo.org), which </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>I'm a member of. PAGC is written in C and works with shapefiles. The </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>intention goal is also to make PAGC extensible so it can be used for </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>geocoding postal addresses in a number of countries. Currently it </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>works out of the box with TIGER/Line data and the new Statistics </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Canada public road network file (that actually needs to be augmented </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>with additional information until it is really useful). The problem </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>we have run into is that few governments release address ranged road </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>network files (we only know that the US and Canada do, and all the EU </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>countries don't), so we haven't been able to work with anything other </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>than US and Canadian data. It sounds like you might benefit from our </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>code base, and there could be room for collaboration at some point.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Dan</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On 30-Mar-06, at 9:48 PM, Paul Scott wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 04:48 +0000, Mark Thomas wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>> Alex Smith wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>>> Did some searching of the archives and found this article </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>>> stating that a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>>> geocoder for PostGIS is in the works (see</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>>>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> <A HREF="http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2004-" TARGET="_blank">http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2004-</A> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>> September/005762.html).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> If you would like to contribute to a project that is based on </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> creating a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> set of global geocoders, take a look at</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> <A HREF="http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/projects/geocoder/" TARGET="_blank">http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/projects/geocoder/</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> This project is attempting to collect geocoders that will work for</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> almost anywhere that you may need. If you would like to join the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> project, please just let me know!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> --Paul</FONT>
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