I think the key to what you are asking is to somehow code the location of these places such that the computer can work out "near" and "neighbor". Not a trivial exercises.
It's tempting to use GPS coordinates, since they are reasonably stable over time and different histories. Some of the hard work of translating old descriptions into GPS-friendly coordinates have already been done by surveyors - no need to re-invent the wheel. That still leaves the question of "what is near"? What might be "next door" back in the farm house days can be a few blocks away in modern urban sprawl for the same exact location. Solving this would be a great leap forward, but the solution appears to be non-trivial. _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
