[postgis-users] latitude / longitude from wkb_geometry

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Mon Feb 12 11:55:35 PST 2007


I feel wheels being reinvented... have you checked out geocoder.us?  Or 
this http://www.pagcgeo.org/ ?

P

mark wrote:
> Hi Regina,
> That is exactly what I want to do!
> Do you have examples of using the tiger geocoder / documentation that
> you can point me to ?
> Thanks a lot!
> mark
> 
> On 2/12/07, Obe, Regina <robe.dnd at cityofboston.gov> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> It sounds like you are trying to create a geocoder using tiger street 
>> data.  So given an address -- are you trying to get the point on the 
>> line where the address sits?
>>
>> If so,  you may want to take a look at this and see if you can use 
>> some of it
>>
>> http://postgis.refractions.net/download/tiger_geocoder.tar.gz
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>> Regina


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