Hoping to drum up more interest in its line of spatial business intelligence (BI) software, a California company said today it is releasing the geocoder foundation as open-source. Orange, Calif.-based ...

Microsoft Corp. has chosen to incorporate Group 1's GeoStan geocoding software and data into its online offerings, MapPoint Web Service and Windows Live Local, for real-time geocode assignment. Group ...

Historically, geocoding was first performed at the ZIP code level, then ZIP +4, and more recently at the street segment level. With each evolutionary step, geocoding accuracy improved dramatically.