Welcome to the PAGC Project

The Postal Address Geo-Coder (or PAGC) is a command line program written in ANSI C that uses an address-ranged street network shapefile and an address list (in a dbf format file) to create a point shapefile that provides the longitude/latitude coordinates of each matched address, and maintains the attribute information in the original address database file. PAGC is Open Source, and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License. PAGC has been built and tested under GNU-Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. However, since it is written in ANSI C, it should be posible to build and use PAGC under any operating system that provides a command line interface.

While PAGC is currently a command line program, we have a major initiative to create a C library based on the code and algorithms used in the command line program. This should allow other open source GIS oriented projects to add postal address geo-coding features to their software.

News

15 December 2006

The PAGC web site has been redesigned to make it both standards complient, and easier to update in the future.

05 December 2006

A user mailing list for PAGC has been started. The purpose of this list is to help users find answers to their questions concerning the use of PAGC, finding bugs and usage issues, and determine what needs to be done to extend the use of PAGC to road networks of different countries.

03 December 2006

The PAGC Project Team is pleased to announce the first full public release of PAGC (v0.1.2).

04 February 2006

The preview release of PAGC (v0.1.0) is now available.