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gweller
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I am wondering if anyone has had success geocoding your data using a freely available source via DataMigrator. I am interested in the approach you took and the provider you may have used.

To throw a monkey wrench into it I am looking for Canadian based addresses as I work for a provincial ministry (US addresses have no relevence, outside of perhaps being a good example)

Thanks in advance


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Posts: 109 | Registered: October 31, 2006Report This Post
Tobar
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quote:
To throw a monkey wrench into it I am looking for Canadian based addresses as I work for a provincial ministry (US addresses have no relevence ...)

My! How "provincial" of you. Smiler My address has a lot of relevence to me! I always thought it was just the US citizens who were ego-centric. Wink

I am sorry to say other than being a smart-aleck I can offer no helpful input.


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Excel, Tab-delimited, XML
 
Posts: 23 | Location: Minnesota | Registered: July 27, 2009Report This Post
Frans
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You could use google maps geocode api:

First make a masterfile (GEO in this case) of the xml google uses. To make the masterfile just save this output

http://maps.google.com/maps/ge...+View,+CA&output=kml and create a masterfile with dmc or the webconsole.

Now you need to make a procedure which gets the data from the Google geocode api, in this case we feed country, city and address to Google:

-SET &GMREQUEST = 'http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q='||&COUNTRY.EVAL ||'+'||&CITY.EVAL||'+'||&ADDRESS.EVAL'&'||'output=kml'||'&'||'key=<you google key here>';
 
FILEDEF GEO HTTP &GMREQUEST
-RUN
TABLE FILE GEO
PRINT COORDINATES
ON TABLE HOLD AS GEOCODE FORMAT ALPHA
END


This will retrieve 1 set of coordinates, you'll have to create a loop to get coordinates for multiple addresses. I believe there is a limit of 5000 records a day for this free service.


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Prod: WF 8.2
DB: Progress, REST, IBM UniVerse/UniData, SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Greenplum, Athena.
 
Posts: 454 | Location: Europe | Registered: February 05, 2007Report This Post
cokeyng
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Hi,

We implemented the solution as suggested. But got the following error when it executing it.

(FOC358) ERROR ISSUING FILEDEF COMMAND FOR: filedef uat_test/geo HTTP http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=.....

0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 1 LINES= 1
No data was returned by the server

Any idea what may go wrong? Also, when we create the geo synonym, are we supposed to create a XML SYNONYM with File system first?

Thanks

Cokey


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all output (Excel, HTML, PDF)
 
Posts: 45 | Registered: April 07, 2010Report This Post
Frans
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Hi Cokey,

You could try this to check if it's working:

-SET &GMREQUEST = 'http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&ouput=kml';
 
FILEDEF GEO HTTP &GMREQUEST
-RUN
TABLE FILE GEO
PRINT COORDINATES
ON TABLE HOLD AS GEOCODE FORMAT ALPHA
END


Check the syntax Google needs to provide you coordinates.


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