[ale] OT: Coordinate services

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Jul 1 15:02:56 EDT 2008


Brian Pitts wrote:
> Robert Coggins wrote:
>   
>> All,
>>
>> Do any of you know of or recommend any professional services that will 
>> provide geolocation coordinates from a physical address?
>>     
>
> You could do it yourself based on the public domain TIGER/Line data
> provided by the census bureau.
>
> http://blog.tooleshed.com/?p=16
>   

That is what I used.  If you want to use Geo::Coder::US you can get the 
geocode.db file from me.  I had to create it from the Tiger data and it 
took many hours.  It is about 800+mb in size


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