[postgis-users] Re: Status of geocoding functions in PostGIS?

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Dan,

Have you guys made any progress in refactoring PAGC to be a library. 
Since I see you on this list also have you thought about building a 
library that can be used to implement a Postgres stored procedure using 
PAGC?

PAGC is very cool with lots of nice technology but it is a little 
difficult to get ones arms around it in its current state :), OK for me 
anyway.

Very nice work,
   -Steve

Putler, Dan wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> You might want to look at the PAGC project (www.pagcgeo.org), which 
> I'm a member of. PAGC is written in C and works with shapefiles. The 
> intention goal is also to make PAGC extensible so it can be used for 
> geocoding postal addresses in a number of countries. Currently it 
> works out of the box with TIGER/Line data and the new Statistics 
> Canada public road network file (that actually needs to be augmented 
> with additional information until it is really useful). The problem 
> we have run into is that few governments release address ranged road 
> network files (we only know that the US and Canada do, and all the EU 
> countries don't), so we haven't been able to work with anything other 
> than US and Canadian data. It sounds like you might benefit from our 
> code base, and there could be room for collaboration at some point.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On 30-Mar-06, at 9:48 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
> 
>  > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 04:48 +0000, Mark Thomas wrote:
>  >>>
>  >>> Alex Smith wrote:
>  >>>> Did some searching of the archives and found this article 
>  >>>> stating that a
>  >>>> geocoder for PostGIS is in the works (see
>  >>>>
>  >> http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-users/2004-
>  >> September/005762.html).
>  >>
>  >
>  > If you would like to contribute to a project that is based on 
>  > creating a
>  > set of global geocoders, take a look at
>  > http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/projects/geocoder/
>  >
>  > This project is attempting to collect geocoders that will work for
>  > almost anywhere that you may need. If you would like to join the
>  > project, please just let me know!
>  >
>  > --Paul
>  >
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