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I'm trying to test the TIGER geocoder with the address provided in the documentation.

This is the sample address I'm testing:75 State Street, Boston MA 02109

SELECT g.rating, ST_X(g.geomout) As lon, ST_Y(g.geomout) As lat,
    (addy).address As stno, (addy).streetname As street,
    (addy).streettypeabbrev As styp, (addy).location As city, (addy).stateabbrev As st,(addy).zip
    FROM geocode('75 State Street, Boston MA 02109') As g;

But I'm not getting any match for this query:

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I have installed PostgreeSQL, PostGIS and the requerired extensions:

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION fuzzystrmatch;
--this one is optional if you want to use the rules based standardizer (pagc_normalize_address)
CREATE EXTENSION address_standardizer;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder;

Also I have also downloaded the data corresponding to that address from the census site, which is correspondes to the state of MA (suffolk_county)

I have loaded the data into a table using the following comand:

ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:dbname=test1 -progress -nlt PROMOTE_TO_MULTI /GIS/data/ma_suffolk_county/tl_2016_25025_edges.shp -nln ma_suffolk_county

The table was succesfully created:

\d+ ma_suffolk_county

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ogr2ogr -f PostgreSQL PG:dbname=test1 -progress -nlt PROMOTE_TO_MULTI /GIS/data/ma_suffolk_county/tl_2016_25025_edges.shp -nln ma_suffolk_county

This is not how you load the data. Follow the section entitled Installing, Upgrading Tiger Geocoder and loading data. You can not diverge from these instructions at all.

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  • I was following that until step 2.8.4 then I had some issues. Is this because I'm not indexing the data doing it this way? or what is the issue? Commented May 16, 2017 at 3:40
  • You load the data by running the scripts you generate with Loader_Generate_Nation_Script and Loader_Generate_Script. You do not use ogr2ogr Commented May 16, 2017 at 4:07

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