[R-sig-Geo] geocoding street addresses within R, not using any web-based services

[Ray Melton]

I can verify that geocoding street addresses in the US with the PostGIS 
TIGER geocoder works, and that you can use RPostgreSQL from R to issue 
the geocoding commands.

I'm running Linux Mint 17.1, and to get the geocoder working, I simply 
went through the steps as outlined in PostGIS in Action, 2nd edition, 
Chapter 8.

Ray


On 01/22/2016 08:38 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> A local postgis setup could work too, http://postgis.net/docs/Extras.html
>
> Can probably use it from R with RPostgresql
>
> Enjoy,
> Alex
>
> On 01/22/2016 01:50 AM, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
>> Dear Christopher,
>>
>> Have a look at the rgeos and spgrass6 packages. rgeos provides several GIS
>> operations. spgrass6 allows to move data from R to GRASS GIS (and vice
>> versa). You can run GRASS operations from within R.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>> ir. Thierry Onkelinx
>> Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
>> Forest
>> team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
>> Kliniekstraat 25
>> 1070 Anderlecht
>> Belgium
>>
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>>
>> 2016-01-21 16:18 GMT+01:00 Christopher W. Ryan <cryan at binghamton.edu>:
>>
>>> Hello. I'm a longtime R and R-help user, and recent listener on
>>> R-sig-geo. First post here. I use R on both Win 7 and Linux Mint.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to geocode street addresses in the US within R on my
>>> local machine, that is, without transmitting the addresses to any
>>> web-based service?  I have about 26,000 street addresses for a certain
>>> type of ambulance call. I'd prefer (so does my Institutional Review
>>> Board) that the addresses remain with me.
>>>
>>> So far I have been using ArcGIS to geocode them on my own machine, and
>>> then export the resulting shapefiles of point patterns to R, for
>>> analysis with spatstat. But I'd rather to it all within R if possible.
>>> (I get frustrated with menu-driven ArcGIS.)
>>>
>>> My data are street addresses, not lon/lat coordinates. I have street
>>> segment databases for the relevant counties from the US Census Bureau
>>> TIGER shapefiles.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>> --Chris Ryan
>>> Broome County Health Department and
>>> Binghamton University and
>>> SUNY Upstate Medical University
>>> Binghamton, NY
>>>
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