'Michigan' is also the name of a building in downtown Detroit. Hence
the premise(building) level 9 accuracy.

On Nov 18, 1:04 pm, Rossko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > then how does that explain level 9 when someone types in michigan?
>
> Might to need to consider what is meant by 'accuracy'.
>
> One aspect of that is - no point defined by lat/long is ever going to
> exactly match any physical address - because they're not point
> objects.    For a street, say, you could represent it by a point
> EXACTLY in the middle of the street, but how would you term the
> 'accuracy' of that point - in the end it's only an average, an
> indication.
>
> Another aspect would be more about 'confidence' in the results.   If
> there were only one 'thing' in the world called Michigan - the
> geocoder would be very confident it was directing you to the right
> one.  Accuracy 9, job done? (from the geocoder's point of view)
>
> No answers there I'm afraid, but what they mean by accuracy might not
> be what you have in mind.
>
> cheers, Ross K

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