MapServer and geocoding

[Stephen Lime]

Nope, no geocoder. It's as much a data problem as a software problem. It probably isn't that hard to write one if you really understand the process. However, you need a decent set of databases to match against and that ain't cheap. About the only freebie dataset I know of is Tiger. others on the list can speak to its suitability.

If you can kick out a coordinate then the app can be integrated with mapserver. A OpenSource geocoder based on free data would be very cool indeed.

Steve

<<< Daniel Morissette <danmo at videotron.ca>  2/23  3:56p >>>
MapServer users,

Has anyone ever used the MapServer for an application that needed to do
geocoding (address matching) on the fly.  I don't think that MapServer
has any direct support for geocoding, does it?

Does anyone have recommendations for a library or package (OpenSource or
commercial) that would complement well MapServer and allow an
application to do geocoding on the fly (ideally something that runs on
Solaris).

Thanks,
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