[Geowanking] geocoding addresses

Reid Priedhorsky reid at umn.edu
Mon Jun 2 12:45:57 PDT 2008


Eric B. Wolf wrote:
> Reid,
> 
> Geocoding is a GIGO process - garbage in, garbage out. If your database 
> is getting failed addresses, then you might want to use these more as 
> clues for cleaning your data rather than tools for selecting the 
> geocoding service. What you are missing, at this point, is how many 
> mis-matched addresses you are getting as completed matches.

Sadly we don't have that luxury -- the addresses are supplied by users 
and geocoded immediately. (Address A is from a business' website.)

:/

Reid




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