[Geocoding] General Nominatim questions

[Charles Randall]

Thanks for the offer Brian - I don't need it right now, but I might take
you up on it in the future!

Regards,
Charles.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Brian DeRocher <brian at derocher.org> wrote:

> On Monday 2012 October 15 17:01:46 Sarah Hoffmann wrote:
> > This happens, when the house numbers are not in the database, then the
> > coordinate of the street is returned.
>
> For what it's worth, i was interested in this particular issue as a small
> personal project to learn more about Nominatim.  Here's my solution.  I
> converted Nominatim from PHP to python.  Then i turned it into a Postgresql
> stored procedure as a set returning function.  Then i modified it so when
> searching with housenumbers, it would join with TIGER data which has street
> numbers for the ends of the streets.  Finally i interpolated the position
> of the house being searched and offset it from the street.  If you're
> intreseted i can share the code.
>
> Brian
>
>
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