SPUG: Geocoding System

[Peter Darley]

James,
	The Geo::Tigerline module seems like it could be just what I have been
looking for.  I haven't had a chance to dig into it yet. :(
Thanks,
Peter Darley

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To: 'Brian Hatch'; 'Fred Morris'
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Subject: RE: SPUG: Geocoding System


Last time I looked, the way to go was to grab the TIGER dataset from the US
Census.  The last update was in 1990, so it's somewhat out-of-date, but may
be good enough for your purposes.  (Lots of commercial products are based on
this data, but they do their own updates).  There's a Geo::TigerLine module
on CPAN that I'd take a look at, but the doc page says it's unfinished.

The data files give you a location (lat/long) for a street address range, so
actually doing the lookup should be trivial.


 - James
     james.moore at ziprealty.com



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