[mapguide-users] Geocoding Engine Goes Open Source

[Jason Birch]

Given that it's LGPL, it seems to be a good fit with MGOS.  I'll have to see about compiling and testing this locally.  It does seem to be specific to US addressing style, but a post on one of the Directions articles indicates that it should be easy to build/plug-in other systems.
 
I'll have to play around with it.  I wonder if it's only a linear interpolation geocoder, or if it works with polygon features as well.  It would be nice to be able to set up multi-tier geocoding with parcel polygons, road centrelines, and postcode polygons as fallbacks.
 
Jason
 

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From: Andy Morsell [mailto:amorsell at spatialgis.com]
Sent: Mon 2006-04-24 9:07 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-users] Geocoding Engine Goes Open Source



There were a couple of discussions on MGOS and geocoding last week.  Those interested may want to check out this article about the recent open-sourcing of SRC's geocoding engine.

http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=14114 <http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=14114>  

Andy Morsell, P.E. 
Spatial Integrators, Inc. 
http://www.SpatialGIS.com <http://www.SpatialGIS.com>  

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