[Qgis-user] Batch GeoCoding within QGIS 2.0

[James Wood]

Joseph,Using just the MMQGIS plugin (Geocode from street layer), I geocoded a little over 8300 records with an 86% match to a street centerline stored in a local database. Given the errors in the original address data, I thought that was pretty good. It did have a little trouble in some spots handling even/odd sides of the street segments and seemed to have trouble with a few oddball street types that were not abbreviated (e.g., TERRACE) and with highway designations, but on the whole I thought it did a pretty good job. I had not updated my plugin so you might want to make sure you are running the most current version (2014.2.28). It would be nice to see future options for records stored in a database table (instead of just csv) and the ability to geocode to other layers such as address points. Even a straight text match to alternate layers would be helpful. Hierarchical geocoding, as you described, would be a logical progression from there. If you come up with anything different, I'd be interested to hear... Best Regards,James  Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:47:02 -0500
From: jbsloop at uncg.edu
To: Qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Qgis-user] Batch GeoCoding within QGIS 2.0

Hello Everyone,I have a question about Batch GeoCoding within QGIS. I have a couple datasets that are rather large (500 +) of addresses. I GeoCoded them in ArcGIS with an Address Locator build on local data (address points, tax parcels and street centerlines). I then tried doing the same thing in QGIS and just was not able to get a good GeoCode. I tried using the MMQGIS Plugin and using GPS Visualizer (found on this blog: http://www.stevencanplan.com/2009/how-to-geocode-in-open-source-qgis/) This geocoded alot better. I was just wondering if there is a way to Batch GeoCode within QGIS using your own data (address points, tax parcels and street centerlines) as the parameters and not Google or OpenStreet Maps?

Thanks in advance,
Joseph_____________________________

Joseph Sloop


PhD Student

University of North Carolina at
Greensboro 

Department of Geography

jbsloop at uncg.edu


 





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