[ale] OT: Coordinate services

[Chris Fowler]

I did this all myself and it was not very hard.

I originally wrote a scrapper for http://www.geocoder.us in perl.

On the CLI you specify the address and it interfaces with that site.  If 
you read
his terms of use that is not something he likes.   He uses 
Geo::Coder::US in Perl.
After a few hours gather data and converting I wrote an interface that 
runs in a server in our Data Center that provided adderss to coordinate 
conversion for all our applications.    The data is free and the only 
cost to me was programming time.

Read the other posts.  This data can vary in accuracy.  In our 
application I give the user an error message when the conversion fails.  
I also point them to my OWN version of Geo::Coder::US web site

Try it here

http://support.opsdc.com/~support/cgi-bin/geocode.pl

Rob Osattin (KI4UTY) added support to convert the address to Grid Squares.

In some cases there just is no data.  In this case i tell my customer to 
use their GPS.

Chris

Robert Coggins wrote:
> All,
>
> Do any of you know of or recommend any professional services that will 
> provide geolocation coordinates from a physical address?
>
> By professional service I mean a company that will allow my application 
> to interface with them to pull these coordinates.  I need someone that 
> will also provide support.
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Robert
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