[iRail] Geo location resolving on the iRail servers

Mon Mar 17 13:12:00 UTC 2014

Hi Pieter,

Geocoding is pretty complex to get right but there are already some tools
for example nominatim:

https://github.com/twain47/Nominatim

When an instance is up-and-running getting the CRAB data into it should not
be a problem. I could even try and request to load the data as part of the
main Nominatim instance used by OSM.

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,

Ben Abelshausen

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Pieter Colpaert <pieter at irail.be> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> In Flanders, CRAB became open data. This is the database of all the
> addresses and their longitude / latitude. We have even put this on github
> in CSV files:
>
> https://github.com/xivk/crab-tools/tree/master/crab_csv
>
> Would someone be interested in writing a webservice with for instance The
> DataTank or a tool of choice, which translates an address in a
> longitude/latitude, and which converts a longitude/latitude into a human
> readable address?
>
> http://thedatatank.com
>
> If there's someone willing to code it, we will install it on the iRail
> servers and make it a public service which everyone can use.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
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