OpenGeocoder

Open Source Geocoder
For those not familiar with the concept, Geocoding takes a human readable address and turns it into coordinates.

Project Purpose
The intention of this project is to work towards creation of open source software providing geocoding capability.

Design goals
Desired attributes:
 * Handle international addressing schemes (expected to be pluggable to support internationalization)
 * Library Coded in C (or C wrapper to C++)
 * Architected and designed for performance
 * Abstracted storage to allow for use of data from various sources e.g. shapefiles, RDBMS, others

Relevant Existing Open Source Technologies

 * SRC Explorer Geocoder
 * Geocoder.us
 * PostLBS
 * PAGC

Target Licensing

 * Preference for a liberal license to encourage adoption by maximum number of technologies both proprietary and open source

Development
The following list are people who are interested in participating in development of this project:


 * Andrew Ross - Ingres
 * Andrew Turner - GeoCommons & HighEarthOrbit
 * Daniel Kastl - pgGeocoder | Geocoder.ja | Orkney
 * Anton Patrushev - pgGeocoder | Geocoder.ja | Orkney
 * Stephen Woodbridge - http://imaptools.com/

Testing
The following list are people who are interested in participating in testing of this project:


 * Andrew Ross - Ingres
 * Andrew Turner - GeoCommons & HighEarthOrbit
 * Daniel Kastl - pgGeocoder | Geocoder.ja | Orkney
 * Anton Patrushev - pgGeocoder | Geocoder.ja | Orkney
 * Stephen Woodbridge - http://imaptools.com/
 * Ian Turton - GeoVISTA Center

Consumers
The following list are people that plan to make use of this project:


 * Andrew Ross - Ingres
 * Dave McIlhagga - DM Solutions Group
 * Andrew Turner - GeoCommons & HighEarthOrbit
 * Daniel Kastl - pgGeocoder | Geocoder.ja | Orkney
 * Anton Patrushev - pgGeocoder | Geocoder.ja | Orkney
 * Stephen Woodbridge - http://imaptools.com/
 * V.Ravi Kumar - OSGeo India
 * Yves Jacolin - OSGeo-fr, HBS-Research (http://geocoder.gloobe.org/)
 * Ian Turton - GeoVISTA Center
 * David Jonglez - Camptocamp
 * Claude Philipona - Camptocamp