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SRC Open Sources Explorer Geocoder

Business intelligence solutions provider SRC announced the open source release of their Explorer geocoding technology.

A geocoder is a digital mapping tool that assigns a latitude & longitude coordinates to any geographic content, and SRC hopes that by open sourcing their Explorer technology they can take the focus off the sale of proprietary GIS platform software--which can cost as much as $50,000 to $100,000--and concentrate instead on providing customers high-quality content and custom applications.

Explorer code is available for download now, under the Lesser GPL, an open source license often used for library code.

Explorer is the first open source data and country independent geocoding engine, and it should help position SRC to profit from providing customized BI software solutions as well as subscription data services. The Virtual Terrain Project has a good article about geocoding. Geocoding Addresses. Another good article, GIS Unshackled A Guide to Open-Source Tools is available at Geoplace.com.

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