Comments on: GeoCommons Open-Sourced Geocoder

By: gisgraphy

gisgraphy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:27:52 +0000

just a little note to announce that gisgraphy geocoder beta is out

http://services.gisgraphy.com to see it in action
http://www.gisgraphy.com to download and install and more…
http://www.gisgraphy.com/feedback/ to send feedback and request

all (data and framework) is opensource and free

gisgraphy

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:45:42 +0000

Hi Andrew,

This is great news! I actually just released (beta) an IP address geocoder – it will do batches directly on the website, and there’s an API for (single) remote requests. I couldn’t find what I needed, so I created one. Hoping to fill a hole.

batchiplocator.webatu.com

Cheers

By: Andrew Turner

Andrew Turner — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:05:43 +0000

@darkness – yes Data has been a problem, which led to a “chicken & egg” problem with building a better open-source geocoder. Our geocoder can import TIGER data or NAVTEQ data – for people that have licensed the commercial data.

In the future, we’re working with OpenStreetMap to build out addresses in that open database.

And lastly – US Census is about to release an updated TIGER that purportedly has very improved quality. Updates actually have been coming out every year or so I believe.

By: darkness

darkness — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:42:53 +0000

This is great… but data is still my #1 problem. TIGER seems to be infrequently updated. Our users seem to expect better.

As long as we’re throwing around stimulus money, maybe we should put some into funding frequent updating of some public address data.

By: Madhav

Madhav — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:03:19 +0000

This is awesome. I have been looking for this for a very long time. Have talked to multiple geocoding vendors in the USA and I must say these vendors are living in dark ages in terms of sharing/selling geodata. One says its $0.01 per geocode, other says no caching, yet another says use only the webservice, and license it only through VARs, no yearly payment means no use of previously geocoded data etc.

By: gisgraphy

gisgraphy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:00:33 +0000

the V2 with openstreetmap database importer and webservice will be online in one or two week, feel free to contact me. it will be a pleasure to work with highearthorbit.com

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:30:37 +0000

@gisgraphy – yes, I’ve looked at the framework and it’s very interesting. It would be great to see how we can all work together to share ideas, code, and successes.

By: gisgraphy

gisgraphy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:01:11 +0000

Hi i currently develop an opensource framework for worldwide geocoding, strretsearch, find nearby, an postal code search. it consist of some full integrated webservices (fulltext, find nearby, geocoding, etc ) and an importer for geonames.org and openstreetmap. the geonames importer and webservices is up since january, the openstreetmap is in beta state. i am currently alone on the project

webservices can output a lot of language : python ,ruby, php, XML, JSON, Atom,GEORSS

i hope to put a stable release in one or two month.

you can see a demo at services.gisgraphy.com (only geonames data for the moment, openstreetmap will come soon)

By: Nino Walker

Nino Walker — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:03:27 +0000

Sounds great. Would love to hear more of the technical details: Any benchmarks to date; performance comparisons to the Perl Geocoder, Portfolio Explorer(http://www.extendthereach.com/products/PortfolioExplorer.srct), …? Compilation time? DB sizes?