Jay 1FamilyTree wrote: > > Has anyone found a way to review large numbers of Place > Location Geo-Coded placement without having to do one > location at a time? > > > I have almost 10,000 places and I am constantly finding Geo > -Code errors. > > For example I have two locations in my list > > Alban, South Dakota 44.4361381666667 > -100.230491666667 > Alban, Grant, South Dakota 44.6187705555556 > -89.2845230555556 > > Yes, these should be merged, but they make a great example here > > Legacy Geo-coded the them as listed above. > > The first one, Alban, South Dakota points to center of the > state and has the same coordinates that is used by the state > generic South Dakota 44.4361416666667 -100.230451111111 > > In other words the geo coding did not find the correct place > except to place the pin at the center of the state, which > would be OK IF there was some disclaimer or notation somewhere. > > > The second one is geo-coded to Alban, Portage County, WISCONSIN > > Why, is Geo coding setting wrong places?? > > (According to Google the coordinates for Alban, South Dakota > are 45.1952395,-96.546404) > >
http://geonames.usgs.gov/ says "Township of Alban" Grant co SD 451140N 0963237W Township is defined as : Class Code Description: Active Minor Civil Divisions. An active county subdivision that is not coextensive with an incorporated place. It covers 3 topo maps which might explain the discrepancy: 1. 45.1944431 -96.5435698 451140N 0963237W Milbank East 2 45.1856212 -96.6325636 451108N 0963757W Milbank West 3 45.1954234 -96.4762297 451144N 0962834W Rosen > With no tool to at least review the places in some sort of > batch (like maybe 25 places on a page each with a small map > of the geo-coded place. The locations list shows the geocode -- assuming you can find the location in either GNIS or the geocode list. I notice that none of Virginia's Independent Cities can be coded. As in, Winchester is an IC and county seat of Frederick County; it isn't in there as Wincheter, Frederick County, Va, USA and it isn't in there as Winchester Va USA and it isn't in there as Winchester (Winchester City) Va USA. [unless that's been fixed for V8, which I can't check because it's too big a db to d/l on dial-up and until I put the program on my laptop, I can't get it d/l over hi-speed. :( ] FWIW Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
