Announcing the Open-Source Geocoder from GeoCommons at State of the Map 2009 - a call to OpenStreetMap developers to extend for the World.

1. Finding the Where in There
@ajturner

5. GeoWeb
Find out more on Sunday Afternoon

6. Lots of Data

8. Definition of Locations

9. Geocoding is Hard

10. Mess of Strings

11. Lacking in Data
flickr: erix!

12. Disconnected ‘Web’ Apps
flickr: bering

13. (a very smart guy) ^
#sotm07

14. Forking is an act of Love github.com/geocommons

15. The Architecture
GeoCoding Engine
Web Service API
U.S. Address Rules Address String Parser Ruby
Metaphone C
TIGER Importer Street Database SQLite
NAVTEQ Importer
GeoCommons http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder

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GeoCommons http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder

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GeoCommons http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder

18. benchmark:
240,000 geocodes / hour
~66.66666666667 geocodes / second
GeoCommons http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder

19. A call to the Community
GeoCommons http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder

20. Thank you!
Andrew Turner
@ajturner
GeoCommons http://github.com/geocommons/geocoder