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[Dan Cech]

Apparently their web service is based on this cpan module.

http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US/

You should be able to cook up a perl frontend script you can call to do 
the lookups pretty easily.

Dan

John Corry wrote:
> Attn: cross posted to ATLPHP
> 
> I am working on a project that will require running about 3500 street
> addresses through a geocoder application to return lat/long pairs.
> 
> My first idea was to use cURL to post the address to the http://geocoder.us/
> site...once for each address, parsing the returned result to get lat/long
> and store those with the address record in my db.
> 
> I haven't tried it yet because a quiet but persistent voice is whispering to
> me that looping through 3500 records and opening a cURL session to another
> website to screen-scrape the results is somehow not a good idea...for my
> server or theirs. I don't know enough about all of the issues to be able to
> articulate why (perhaps you want to enlighten me)...just that it seems like
> a bad idea.
> 
> Does anyone know a better way? I can't pay for a commercial service for this
> but if there's a faster, more efficient means of usign the free services
> available I'd appreciate hearing about it.
> 
> Thanks,
> John Corry
> 
> 
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