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GIS Search

Gis Search is a portal to GIS news and information.
This site will show you how to perform geo-coding of data, and contains information about geographical search engines. One of the authors is also the creator of LocalLucene and LocalSolr, the open source geographical search engines. Below are a few select articles from the GIS search online book.

More chapters are available inside the book, and as always feed back is welcome !

Articles

ChefMoz case study

A question that is often asked, how and where do I get geographical data from.
Technology is generally the easy part, getting the data is tough.

Geocoding

Geocoding is the term used to describe the conversion of an address to
a latitude and longitude.

LocalSolr

Expert Level

LocalSolr is a port of the LocalLucene library to the

Local Lucene

Local lucene is an effort to provide geographical search capibilities to Java Lucene.
Local lucene is not a search engine in itself but the libaries and capabiliet

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