geocoding unstructured addresses in India

After traveling to India this Fall and beginning the work on a collaborative GIS project with students from the Indo-Asian Academy I am happy to see Microsoft Research India working on a way to geocode addresses in countries lacking a standard addressing scheme like the United States.  While in India, I was wondering how you would perform geocoding in a country growing so fast with infrastructure stack on top of infrastructure not to mention the vast diversity of housing that would be required to geocode.

Here are a couple of posts on the topic ...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/RLS.aspx
http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/5137-Microsoft-Research-Tool-Geocodes-Unstructured-Addresses.html

blogger gets it's location on

via GeoRSS. Tag your post with location to allow people to search based on geography. Available through draft.blogger.com only.  See the location link below ... nice.

Street view for Asheville is up today

The Google vans were spotted around town 6 - 9 months ago collecting street view data and today it is available. See if you can find a friend or yourself walking down the street ...

GPS goes civilian today in 1993 ....

Secretary of Defense opens the GPS system to civilian use on December 8th, 1993... and I was using it the next year.

Read more here...
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1208

321 definitions of maps - and a word cloud

http://makingmaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/321-definitions-of-map/

definitions of the word 'map'

http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/essays/andrews.htm

Updated GIS Day 2008 information

GIS Day is one week from tomorrow. Below you can get PDF's of all the activities. Remember, it is a drop-in event so come for as much or as little of it as you can.

Get the flyer here ...

Get the full schedule of events here ...

Get the list of presenters here ...

Get the GIS Day Cake Decorating Contest Information here ...