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- <title>Tiger Geocoder</title>
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<abstract>
<para>A plpgsql based geocoder written to work with the <ulink url="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/">TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system ) / Line and Master Address database export</ulink> released by the US Census Bureau. In prior versions the TIGER files were
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</abstract>
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+ <title>Tiger Geocoder</title>
<para>There is another geocoder for PostGIS gaining in popularity and more suitable for international use. It is called <ulink url="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim">Nominatim</ulink>
and uses OpenStreetMap gazeteer formatted data. It requires osm2pgsql for loading the data, PostgreSQL 8.4+ and PostGIS 1.5+ to function. It is packaged as a webservice interface and seems designed to be called as a webservice.