[Info-vax] ZIP+4

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-05-06 12:38:03 +0000, jcristof77 at gmail.com said:

> On Friday, May 3, 2019 at 3:26:36 PM UTC-4, jcris... at gmail.com wrote:
>> Any have experienceany of the ZIP+4 tools? Looking for a replacement 
>> that runs on VSI's latest release.
> It's not an issues of tools not working post upgrade/conversion to VSI. 
> Current vendor has priced the Itanium support for OpenVMS very high. So 
> investigating alternatives. This would be for Zip geocoding

You're quoting your own messages, and not the replies to your question. 
 Which tends to get confusing.  The Google Groups UI to the comp.os.vms 
newsgroup seems to have claimed another victim, eh?

Among other ioptions here, http://www.eternal-september.org or 
http://albasani.net/index.html.en or http://news.aioe.org are (free) 
NNTP providers.  That and a newsreader for your chosen platform will 
get you here directly.

The TIGER data is here: 
https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-data.html 


The Python geocoder and arcpy and opencage packages will probably all 
run with minimal changes, assuming they'll still run on the older 
Python 2 environment that's available on OpenVMS.

libpostal would be worth a look, though that'll require a port.  The 
code is supposedly reasonably portable.  That's for address 
normalization, and not geocoding.
https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal

Google has an API for geocoding, as do some other vendors.  There are 
packages to interface with a variety of those services.  Saw a generic 
framework that allowed accessing multiple providers, but didn't save a 
link to that one.

All of this was from a few minutes of DDG.  Donno how long a libpostal 
port would require as I've not looked at the code.

I'm sure there are a number of other options.

There are folks that can research and/or test and/or port this stuff 
for you, too.  I'm one.


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