News

  • 07/02/2008 - JGeocoder 0.4 released! Address parser now has auto spelling correction and auto city name alias resolution
  • 07/02/2008 - JGeocoder now has a confluence wiki page, new documentations will be added there

About JGeocoder

Geocoding is the process of estimating a latitude and longitude for a given location. JGeocoder is a free geocoder implemented in Java. This project is loosely modeled after Geo::Coder::US , a Perl module available for download from the CPAN.

Keywords: geocoder java, address parser, geocode java, java geocoding API, address standardization

Project Status

see Quick Start for a tutorial about how to test JGeocoder

This project will consist of 3 major components:

  • Address parser , which will be responsible for parsing an input address into a standardize format. This is necessary because the address database stores address data in a certain format. In order to geocode an address, the input address must be turned into a recognizable format first.
  • Address geocoder , which takes in the parsed address as input and searches the address database for the corresponding address. If the address is found, the lat/lon will then be estimated using the information of the found address.
  • Data importing scripts . JGeocoder will be using the Tiger/Line address database from US census bureau. This module will import the Tiger/Line data files into a relational database for the address geocoder.

    If you are interested in helping out, send me a message at 'zl25drexel AT gmail DOT com'. (You need to be reasonably proficient with Java, Maven2 and open source development in general). I don't have time to do everything by myself nor do I want to :-)