[postgis-users] Batch geocoding (~2 mil addresses)

[Paragon Corporation]

Ravi,
 
If you have pgAdmin, you might want to try something like pgScript.  Unlike
plpgsql it commits on each update so doesn't suffer from the same issue as a
stored proc.
 
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/181-pgscript_intro.html
 
Hope that helps,
Regina
http://www.postgis.us
 


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From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Ravi ada
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 7:06 AM
To: 'PostGIS Users Discussion'
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Batch geocoding (~2 mil addresses)



Thanks Jonathan for the quick reply.

 

I am doing the similar thing as you did except doing it locally. I got the
address divided into 4 columns, address, city, state and zip. I was able to
query for each state and run the geocode. I was never successful running the
complete state. The query takes forever to finish even though the query plan
shows it is using index scan etc.  I even wrote a psql function to pass one
address at a time to get the geocode, this one also could not complete
because I could not commit each address as I get the gecode and ended up
running out of resources.

How you were able to geocode by state, did you write any scripts or psql
functions? If yes, do you mind sharing? I am having hard time geocoding
these addresses.

Appreciate any help is extended.

 

Thanks,

Ravi Ada

 

From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of
Johnathan Leppert
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 11:38 PM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Batch geocoding (~2 mil addresses)

 

Hi Ravi,

 

There is a thread about the tiger geocoder performance from awhile back you
might want to look into. I had to do this before with about 1M addresses and
ended up creating an ec2 instance for each state and sending addresses with
that state to that specific host (using a simple regex to match state in an
address line). Somewhat expensive, but got the job done quickly.

 

Johnathan

 

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Ravi ada <raviada at dobeyond.com> wrote:

Hello All,

 

I have been fighting with PostGIS for the last week or two to geocode about
2 million addresses. Here are the challenges that I am facing.

1)      I sorted the addresses by zip, address, city to group the similar
addresses together.

2)      So far I have seen only 50% of rating zero, that means perfect
match.

3)      Some addresses have Suite# or Apt# in address line 1. Geocode
function takes longer time for such addresses

4)      Addresses that are on the interstate, may be on the service road.
These are taking longer to code.

5)      Getting syntax errors on line_segment function when processing some
addresses that have additional data in parenthesis and a period. For example
"5727 FM 3097(HORIZON RD.),ROCKWALL,TX,750327786" 

6)      I am using batch updates selecting the addresses per state to reduce
the size of the batch. I used straight SQL update as mentioned in the
documentation, and wrote a function to call geo code for each address. In
both cases the query ran for more than 6 hours and never been able finish
successfully. If I kill the query, nothing gets updated to the address table
because the whole transaction is killed and not committed.

7)      I am running this on Ubuntu 11.10 and postgresql 9.1 on a virtual
machine on 8GB i5 machine. I know the resources are very less for such a
task.

 

My questions are

1)      How other people are geocoding so many addresses, what is the best
way to do it, knowing that we may not have fully normalized addresses.

2)      How long it should take to geocode about 2mil addresses.

3)      What does it mean if the rating is non-zero, and more than 50. Do we
get the distance wring for such addresses?

4)      What is the recommended hardware configuration? We need to geocode
these addresses only once, and periodically to the delta that we get every
month. 

 

Thank you so much for all the efforts that you guys are contributing to the
project. Any help with my questions would greatly be appreciated.

 

Thanks

Ravi Ada

 

 


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