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[nycphp-talk] Geocoder and PHP

csnyder chsnyder at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 08:30:47 EDT 2005


On 6/10/05, Dan Cech <dcech at phpwerx.net> wrote:
> Apparently their web service is based on this cpan module.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/

Oh, that's great! One module imports the free TIGER/Line census data
which has lat/long for every address in the US (right?), and the other
module does lookups on it.

Skip the Perl frontend, it shouldn't take more than a couple hours to
do this yourself in PHP.

Then again, $50 for 20,000 lookups is a pretty good deal, and you jump
directly to the fun part.


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Chris Snyder
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