[Mapserver-users] Re: Geocoding

[woodbri at swoodbridge.com]

There are lots of ways to do geocoding depending how involved you 
want to get. One simple way is to load your street data into MySQL or 
PostGIS then you can write simple php code to do queries on the 
database. Once you have found a street segment that looks like a 
match you can interpolate along the street based on the street number 
you want and the range of numbers found on that street segment.

I have done most of my geocoding using C or Perl & MySQL so I don't 
think I will be much help with php examples. Anyway the code I have 
is way more complex than you would want as a novice, I would get some 
shape files of streets data and load them into a DB and write some 
code to do some queries. You will be surprised how good that works 
and how much you will learn doing it.

-Steve

On 19 Aug 2003 at 11:28, R Jones wrote:

> Hello David,
> 
> I saw this link:
> http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/data2/wilma/mapserver-users/0209/msg00052
> .html
> 
> As a complete novice, can you point me to some PHP code
> that does geocoding of street addresses?
> 
> We are using Mapserver and starting to learn Postgres and
> PostGIS.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer!!
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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