<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Hi Clifford,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The immediate disaster preparedness benefit of geocoding addresses would be to get the chairman of Beaverton CERT (</span><a href="http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/index.aspx?nid=569" style="font-size: 14pt;">http://www.beavertonoregon.gov/index.aspx?nid=569</a>) <span style="background-color: transparent;"> to
quit riding my sorry butt about my current project!</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Ya see, CERT members are the first boots on the ground when the professional responders are overwhelmed. We bridge the gap between the Big Bad Thing and the arrival of the Cavalry. Our current project is to map out all of our members to identify who lives within a particular radius of whom, information from which we'll build localized teams, plan equipment
caches, rally points, etc.</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">As you know, its all about location. After the quake/tsunami flattens the pacific northwest, we'll be flooded with damage reports, support requests, pop-up shelter locations, etc, all of which will probably be expressed in terms of street address, intersection, or landmark. To do any sort of automated work with that data (estimate the impact of the cloud of methyl-ethyl-badness from the derailed train car, for instance), first thing
I want to do is to geocode everything so I can do math on it.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Of course, there's the whole "predict what the Incident Commander will want years in advance" aspect to this, too. There's just no telling what the local IC is going to come up with once the ball gets rolling. Every IC has a boss, so this bit of mystery goes all the up to DHS/FEMA.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Anyway, whatever CERT does, we generally plan to do it without any supporting infrastructure such as commercial power, internet, etc. If it can't be done it with a ham radio and laptop from the front seat of my corolla, its probably not going to happen in time to matter.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I'm just getting rolling on this, and if there is a way to make something harder that it should be, I'm just the guy to find it. If I'm twisting at windmills here, let me know :)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande',
sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Cheers!</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">David</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19.09090805053711px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div
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sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Clifford Snow <clifford@snowandsnow.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> David Hiers <davidhiers7836@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, January 5, 2014 11:58 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Qgis-user] offline address geocoding<br>
</font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv3106649613"><div><div dir="ltr">David,<div>I'm a volunteer contributor to OpenStreetMap. A few of us are working to import addresses into OSM. (Although not all countries have addresses.) I had not considered addresses useful for disaster preparedness. Can you help me understand how address help? </div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Clifford</div></div><div class="yiv3106649613gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv3106649613gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:41 AM, David Hiers <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:davidhiers7836@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:davidhiers7836@yahoo.com">davidhiers7836@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
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Hello,</div><div>I am seeking a GIS app to use for a disaster preparedness group. As such, I need full functionality when the Internet is not available.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 19.09090805053711px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
The weak spot for most GIS apps seems to be gecoding street addresses to coordinates (lat/log, UTM, etc). Many apps seem to wind up referencing the geocoding services of google or yahoo instead of doing the work locally.</div>
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Provided the correct data files (TIGER, etc), can QGIS be used to geocode street addresses without Internet access?</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 19.09090805053711px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
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Best Regards,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 19.09090805053711px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none"></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 19.09090805053711px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">David</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 19.09090805053711px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
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