[CUWiN-Dev] geocoding

[Zachary C. Miller]

I have updated my example script and put it in /usr/local/bin so
anyone with an account on my server should now be able to run "geocode
ADDRESS" to get the lat and long, you can run "geocode -v ADDRESS" to
get the normalized address, a bunch of URLs for this location on
various mapping servers, and the latlong. If you run geocode without
any arguments or with -h you will get usage info.

I have also created an account for Sean Fioritto and sent him account
details separately by email.

Have fun. 

Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> hey zach,
> 
> would it be possible to set up a command "geocode" that has that full 
> path aliased?  i just figure that it'll make everything much easier to 
> remember when we're using it.
> 
> --sascha
> 
> Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> > I've been looking for a free geocoder for a long time and have finally
> > found one. I have installed the perl module Geo::Coder::US and
> > processed the 4GB of US Census Tiger/Line data into
> > /extra2/geocoder.db. 
> > 
> > There is an example script that uses this at /home/wolfgang/geocode.pl
> > 
> > Call it like this (on my server, imsahp):
> > 
> > % /home/wolfgang/bin/geocode.pl 107 West Washington, Urbana, IL
> > 
> > And it gives output like this:
> > 
> > 107 W Washington
> > Urbana, IL 61801
> > 40.105642 -88.207462
> > 
> > It doesn't do any network access to do this, all the geocoding data is
> > stored locally on my server.
> > 
> > So if CUWiN folks want to get the latlongs for installed nodes it is
> > now extremely easy to do that (without taking a GPS to the site) in an
> > automated way if you have an address. You won't be able to store the
> > geocoding database on a node because it is 800MB but you can write CGI
> > scripts or offline batch processing scripts to run on
> > cuwireless.net. Whatever crazy creative stuff you can think of.
> > 
> 

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