Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 18:48
The linear thiking blog offers a short review of open source geocoders.
From the entry: "All of the engines implement parsing and matching logic purely in code. None of them provide a declarative description language to allow easy modification of parsing, standardization, and matching rules. [...] In all the projects the parser design appears to be fairly ad-hoc and poorly documented. This situation doesn't inspire confidence that it would be possible to modify the parser to support a different address model, or to handle particular kinds of input errors."
See also previous stories below.
Read more of this story at Slashgeo.
