www.datasciencetoolkit.org is down

[mlucool]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but www.datasciencetoolkit.org/ is down. Verified by: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.datasciencetoolkit.org/

[mikedolanfliss]

I experienced the same. I found a few forks my R code could reference... but then ended up with using the new geocoding API from the census. Note Pete Warden's blog post on DSTK and "new management." I'm not so sure they're maintaining it... which is too bad. It's a beautiful package.

http://petewarden.com/2015/09/27/openheatmap-and-datasciencetoolkit-under-new-management/

[fredclown]

It is truly a bummer as dstk is the only solution I have found for offline geocoding. While the census bureau does have an online geocoder there are businesses that could never use it (such a US medical institutions) because they would have to transmit the address data over the internet. DSTK scratched this itch right nicely. Too bad the latest TIGER data in it is from 2012 I believe.

[mikedolanfliss]

Yeah. FWIW, this thread seems to celebrate GisGraphy. Seems to work
locally if you can manage to set it up.

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18871/is-there-an-open-source-geocoding-tool-which-can-be-used-commercially

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:15 PM, fredclown [email protected]
wrote:

It is truly a bummer as dstk is the only solution I have found for offline
geocoding. While the census bureau does have an online geocoder there are
businesses that could never use it (such a US medical institutions) because
they would have to transmit the address data over the internet. DSTK
scratched this itch right nicely. Too bad the latest TIGER data in it is
from 2012 I believe.

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