Looking for a good open-source geocoder? At State of the Map 2009 in Amsterdam this past weekend, Andrew Turner from GeoCommons announced the organization is open-sourcing and uploading to GitHub its geocoder.
“The reason we’re open-sourcing it is because primarily an open-source geocoder has been a sorely missing piece of the open-source geospatial stack,” Turner explains on his blog, High Earth Orbit.
Created by GeoCommons as part of its FGDC CAP Grant to geo-enable government data, and in collaboration with Schuyler Erle, the geocoder currently only has components for the United States. But by open-sourcing it, and with the rapid growth of OpenStreetMap, Turner hopes the geospatial community will quickly built it out for more global coverage.
Also check out the slideshow below of Turner’s announcement.
GeoCommons Open-Source GeoCoder
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