Reverse Geocoding

Schuyler Erle schuyler at NOCAT.NET
Sun Jan 2 11:08:40 EST 2005


* On 30-Dec-2004 at 12:53PM PST, Camden Daily said:
>
> If you don't care much too much about accuracy, it would seem that the
> same alogorithm used to geocode could be reversed with a little work.
> If you've got good Perl skills, I'd suggest looking at the source for
> Geo::Coder:US.

This is on my list of things to do one day with Geo::Coder::US.
Basically, the right way to do it is with an on-disk quadtree index of
streets in the BerkeleyDB database. I just haven't gotten round to
exploring this idea yet - suggestions and patches welcome.

SDE



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