[ale] OT: Coordinate services

[Jim Lynch]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> 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.
>   
Nice job!  Is that open for causal use?

Thanks,
Jim.