[OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?

[Alvaro Zabala]

2008/11/12 Anton Patrushev <anton.patrushev at gmail.com>
Hi,

>From my point of view there is nothing really impossible in making
international geocoder tool.



Well, but you can define (as you point) a plugin based address normalization
API, and every actor interested in a given address system implementation,
could develop its own plugin.

 gvSIG project is developing something similar:

http://subversion.gvsig.org/gvSIG/trunk/extensions/extNormalization/ a GUI
plugin client to create dialogs for address normalization.
http://subversion.gvsig.org/gvSIG/trunk/libraries/libGeocoding/   library
for Geocoding and address normalization.

Best regards.




We just have to admit that we can't make one tool for each and every
> address system in the world.
> But geocoding is nothing more than just address string parsing and
> having it parsed to a set of address entities just match it with
> particular fields and geometry from the data set.
>
> My idea is to use syntax and lexical analysis tools (the same we use
> for making compilers) and set of rules (grammar) for each address
> system, which we can call a plugin for the geocoding engine.
> It means that most of work would be transfered from core engine
> developers to plugin developers. It is also a perfect task to split to
> local communities - to develop a plugin for a local address system
> according to the main engine specification.
>
> Anton.
>
> P.S. Andrew, indeed, it would be nice to separate mailing lists.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Andrew Ross <grof at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Thank you for the great posts and discussion!
> >
> > I'm thinking given the interest, it may be time to create a separate
> mailing
> > list for each of the OpenGeocoder and OpenRouter initiatives. If no one
> > disagrees, we'll do this and I'll share the lists here so people can
> opt-in
> > to the conversation.
> >
> > Andrew
> > ________________________________
> > From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> > [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross
> > Sent: November 10, 2008 2:17 PM
> > To: 'OSGeo Discussions'
> > Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?
> >
> > Thank you everyone for the great response to this post.
> >
> > I'd like to poll everyone's thoughts regarding the appropriate next
> steps.
> > It seems to me we have good support for this initiative.
> >
> > It isn't as clear to me yet what the best way forward is. My instincts
> are
> > leaning towards spending time to capture requirements, identify key use
> > cases, and crucial standards. The thinking is that with this information
> > captured, we're in a better position to review the implementations
> available
> > to identify which candidates are best positioned to satisfy those needs.
> >
> > I would like to echo Andrew Turner's comments that we're focusing on
> API's
> > that can be used offline rather than a web service. (though it's good to
> see
> > great web service projects out there!)
> >
> > Input, thoughts, feedback are greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Andrew
> > ________________________________
> > From: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
> > [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Ross
> > Sent: November 5, 2008 7:59 PM
> > To: OSGEO Discussion list
> > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Anyone interested in geocoding and routing?
> >
> >
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > A few of us have been talking and thought the timing might be right to
> try
> > and start projects to work on Geocoding and Routing. We're still
> gathering
> > information and checking to learn who's interested.
> >
> > If you are interested, please check out the following wiki's and add your
> > name in the section you are interested in.
> >
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenGeocoder
> >
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OpenRouter
> >
> > There are experts out there that are far more knowledgeable about
> Geocoding
> > and Routing than I am. To these good people: please feel empowered to
> make
> > modifications, provide feedback in whatever way you feel most
> comfortable.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andrew
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> >
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