[Geowanking] Geocoding Problem

[Anselm Hook]

I bet rich gibson could find a workaround - he's maintaining it... and
often adds special case handling logic.

Anybody in Buenos Aires on Feb 9?  Gonna hang out there with some peeps .

 - anselm


On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Donald Cooke <Don.Cooke at teleatlas.com> wrote:
> Basically, no one has ever done a good job with such addresses.  The
> best hope for us is for these communities to adopt city-style
> addressing, usually for 911E purposes.  I served on the committee that
> did this for a small New Hampshir town back in 1994.
>
> Geowankers: take note of URISA's Addressing conference in Providence, RI
> (a nice city, BTW) early August this year:
> http://www.urisa.org/conferences/Addressing/Info  It's put on in
> conjunction with NENA, the National Emergency Numbers Association. This
> is exactly the kind of issue that's covered.
>
> ********* Don Cooke *******************
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Grimland [mailto:skgstyle at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:47 PM
> To: geowanking at geowanking.org
> Subject: [Geowanking] Geocoding Problem
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to geocode some address from upstate NY using
> http://geocoder.us. I've run into a problem with addresses which have
> 'Rural Delivery' (R D) in the street line. These address return a
> message that the address can not be parsed. Can anyone suggest a
> solution or is the geocoder not built to handle rural US addresses?
>
> Some example addresses are:
> R D 1 Smithville Center Road
> R D 1 Box 25 Ny Route 12
> R D 3 Ny S Route 12
> R.D. #2, Box 256A
> Box 209 Route 12
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sean G.
>
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