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mrwabam

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I'm working on a project utilizing google Maps API, am going to be importing 25k address's into it. The way it works however is that you need to convert the address's into longitude/latitude, anyone know of anyway to mass convert the address's into that.

Also, going to be making a live version of this project, anyone know what source I'd need to query to get those points?
 
If you know perl, there is a good perl library for geocoding addresses using US Census Tiger Line Data. It's a ton of downloading to get the data, severl GB worth of data and you have to convert that data into a db file to use with the perl code... so it's kind of a pain to set up, but it does work fairly well. If you're interested in this perl library you can get it from http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-Coder-US-1.00/US.pm

There is a demo utilizing this code at: http://geocoder.us/ with more information about it.

Good luck 🙂

 
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