Open Source Geocoding Engine

[Chris Andrews]

There is this:

http://dan.egnor.name/google.html

And: 

http://www.geocoder.us/

In general, it's not that difficult to build an address geocoder, but
the data acquisition/purchase is a different story.  For example, Tiger
data published by the US Census Bureau is usually used for demos, but
not for production systems.

C



-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Poopalasingham Elankeswaran
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:51 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Open Source Geocoding Engine

Hi there,

I am doing research on Address gecoding with Mapserver and
PostgreSQL/PostGIS. Does anyone have any idea in this area? It is not
like Goole Map or Mapquest. This has to be specifically for Southern
Ontario, Canada. I need to search list of addresses and displaying them
together on a Map or save all the corresponding points to a shape file.

Is there any Open Source Geocoding Engine?

Thanks,

P.Elankes
Computer System Engineering
Carleton University
Ottawa,Canada