[Talk-us] what do we mean by geocoding?

[Richard Welty]

On 6/22/13 9:04 PM, Paul Norman wrote:

...lots of good points...
> Something else worth noting is this isn't an either-or situation for
> geocoding. There is no reason you can't have both the street address and
> postal address geocode to the same physical location. It is common to have
> multiple inputs geocode to the same location.
>
> For reverse geocoding you probably want the street address, not the postal
> address. I suspect looking up the address of a point to navigate there is
> far more common than looking up the address of a point to send it mail.
>
right. my fundamental point is we need to have some specification for
what we thing geocoding is and how its behavior should look for the
end users of the data.

in the rural areas where i live, a lot of the digital mapping solutions are
more than a little messed up in spots. one of my daughter's friends
lives in Chatham, but her street address is Brainerd because the
Brainerd PO delivers the mail - and Brainerd isn't even in the same county.
a conversation with her parents about the address generally includes a
list of things to try because there's no reliability or consistency much of
anywhere.

richard