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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hey folks,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Glad to see that there is enough interest in going this route these days…</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The PAGC projoect has been around for a few years, and has an SVN repo on Sourceforge.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Take a look and concider a few things.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* The latest version contains a C library</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* We already have an OGC geocoding service</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* Out of the box it is ready for TIGER data and Canadian Stats can data</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* text Files control the lexicon of naming conventions.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">* text Files control the fomrat of tabular data and its interpritation…</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Before reinventing the wheel perhaps there ar esynergies, especialy in maintaining the library, adding internationalization and addition format support.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">We also have a mailing list.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Here is the project page </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://www.pagcgeo.org/"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.pagcgeo.org/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Please go to Sourceforge for the latest download…</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
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