Geocoder and scripts

Hello all.

There have been a few chains going around about using postgis to geo-code against Tiger data.  I know that there are some scripts available already, but I just thought I would post what we have running now and see what people thought.  These scripts were originated from the scripts found under Tiger Geocoder at http://postgis.refractions.net/download/.  There are some enhancements left to do, but this is the first generation of the scripts and they do work for most cases.  You can see the power of this geocoder at http://hud.uai.com/hudpls/ViewMap.aspx?FindAddTI=1.  This is doing a live geo-coded search as the user types for the entire US (~39 million roads).  At this time we are returning the top 12 hits as the user types.  This is done by using a modified version of the Ajax AutoComplete control.

Future enhancements include:

  *Street Intersection geocoding

  *FuzzyString match (also broadening the search outwards to match at Zip, then City, then State)

  *Continued growth on normalization algorithms

  *Use of 'LIKE' will be incorporated if the postgres optimizer changes to optimize the use of a % at the end of a string.

If you would like to test these scripts, simply follow the README.html that is in the zip which has basic step-by-step instructions on exactly what to do.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions\comments\suggestions on any of this.

Best Regards,

Lee Keel

<<Geocoder.zip>>

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