<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div>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></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;"> 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><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;">Provided the correct data files (TIGER, etc), can QGIS be used to geocode street addresses without Internet access?</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;">Best Regards,</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></body></html>