On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:41:02AM -0600, Markus Linke wrote:
Ok, I have added long/lat (copy+paste from the google link) and I can see the google maps graphics now, but it is about half an hour away from the actual street address. Whats the easiest way to gather this information? Can't OpenGuides process the address fields?
OpenGuides does not process this information, because there is no 'free' datasource for this information for the world. Therefore, any geocoder you use will impose a license restriction on the dataset, which is contrary to what most users of the software are interested in.
There are a number of geocoders available, and some guides have integrated geocoding: The united states is easy, because geocoder.us offers the support you need.
I have a patch to the code that uses GeoCoder.us -- however, there are some issues surrounding using it as a geocoder. The API license states that information retrieved from tat data source is licensed not for commercial use, so if you are interested in a 'free' license without a NC restriction, you would need to purchase access to geocoder.us.
If you are interested in this route or other sources of geocoding, please feel free to respond, and we can work on solving your problem in the short term at least (Where we = 'me', not 'OpenGuides developers' neccesarily) and figure out what restrictions you're willing to accept.
Regards,