[postgis-users] What street-level database are you using?

[Lowther, David W]

And don't forget Navtech, although you'll have to sign a non-disclosure
agreement before you'll get pricing. When I looked into this I liked
Teleatlas the best, but we ended up staying with TIGER.

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:29 PM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] What street-level database are you using?
> 
> 
> Hi Jason,
> In the States, your options break down to:
> 
> - TIGER (old, scruffy, unreliable, but free!)
> - TeleAtlas
> - GDT
> 
> If you have more time than money, an interesting project would be 
> trying to decode the data underlying Microsoft Streets.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 08:14 PM, Jason Garman wrote:
> 
> > Hi fellow PostGIS'ers...
> >
> > First I'd like to extend my thanks for producing an excellent system
> > that even a GIS newbie such as myself was able to set up a PostGIS 
> > system quickly.  I've currently set up a PostGIS table with 
> Tiger/Line 
> > data (right now a few counties in Maryland) and set up some 
> queries to 
> > perform primitive geocoding using the data.  PostgreSQL performs 
> > admirably, returning fuzzy-string based geocode results in 
> well under 
> > 100ms for most searches.
> >
> > My question is, are there any commercial data sources for 
> street-level
> > geocoding products for the US available that are reasonably 
> priced and 
> > have easy import options into PostGIS?  I've done some cursory 
> > searches and I haven't found any real information on this subject.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -- jason
> >
> >
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>       Paul Ramsey
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