Difference between revisions of "OpenGeocoder"

Revision as of 10:01, 5 November 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 * Abstracted storage to allow for use of data from various sources e.g. shapefiles, RDBMS, others
+===Relevant Existing Open Source Technologies===
+* SRC Geocoder
+* Geocoder.us
+* PostLBS
+===Target Licensing===
+* Preference for a liberal license to encourage adoption by maximum number of technologies both proprietary and open source