Comments by Member 9562469 (Top 1 by date)

I'm not asking about open source API's, I'm asking about open source geocoders. I've seen Yahoo's API, as well as Geonames, and I've seen that SO question. I'm asking about geocoding software IE you have your own database and software to geocode against it. I know I can get data for the US either from the TIGER/Line or also from OpenStreetMaps, USPS, GDT, Navtech or others. At this point I'd rather have my own database and software and I do realize how much data that is. Open Street Maps download appears to be somewhere around 400GB (28GB compressed) but that's for much more than just the US.