https://www.caktusgroup.com/tags/gis/Recent content in Gis on Caktus GroupHugoenMon, 12 Dec 2011 16:17:20 +0000https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/12/openblock-geocoder-part-1-data-model-and-geocoding/Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:17:20 +0000https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/12/openblock-geocoder-part-1-data-model-and-geocoding/<p>As Tobias mentioned in <a href="http://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2011/12/06/scraping-data-and-web-standards/">Scraping Data and Web Standards</a>, Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on <a href="https://github.com/openrural">GitHub</a>). Open Rural hopes to help rural newspapers in North Carolina leverage <a href="http://openblockproject.org/">OpenBlock</a>. This blog post is the first of several covering the internals of OpenBlock and, specifically, the geocoder.</p>