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 Geocoder
• Geocoder.us
• PostLBS

Target Licensing

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

Project Support

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

• Andrew Ross - Ingres
• Andrew Turner - GeoCommons & HighEarthOrbit
• Daniel Kastl - Orkney | Geocoder.ja

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

• Andrew Ross - Ingres
• Andrew Turner - GeoCommons & HighEarthOrbit
• Daniel Kastl - Orkney | Geocoder.ja

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 - Orkney | Geocoder.ja