David,
Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I'm still looking for a
solution.
mapinfo.abb doesn't look excessive to me; but a button from the geocoding
dialog box gives an option box, and one of the options to check or uncheck
is use of mapinfo.abb. I tried geocoding with that option box unchecked,
and it doesn't help..
Interesting point, though: I got some hits geocoding the same source file
against a different mappable file. With this new file, in some cases it
displayed ranges of house numbers, so it appeared to be delivering as
described.
It appeared strange to me that I still didn't get the ranges of street
numbers displayed next to the street name - but maybe my expectation of what
was to be displayed was wrong.
The users' guide, chap. 8, gives no illustration of geocoding by address.
That's unfortunate, since geocoding by address appears to be a complex
procedure, so it would be good to have an example of what I should see if it
goes correctly.
So I think I'm up agaist a combination of an undocumented requirement in the
map file, and undocumented procedures.
here is what is in mapinfo.abb:
!Version 2.0
FIRST 1ST
SECOND 2ND
THIRD 3RD
FOURTH 4TH
FIFTH 5TH
SIXTH 6TH
SEVENTH 7TH
EIGHTH 8TH
NINTH 9TH
TENTH 10TH
NORTH N
SOUTH S
EAST E
WEST W
ALLEY AL
AVENUE AV
AVE AV
BOULEVARD BLVD
BRIDGE BR
CIRCLE CIR
COURT CT
DRIVE DR
EXTENSION EXT
HIGHWAY HWY
INTERSTATE I
LANE LN
MOUNT MT
PARK PK
PARKWAY PKWY
PLACE PL
PLAZA PLZ
POINT PT
RAILROAD RR
ROAD RD
ROUTE RT
SAINT ST
SQUARE SQ
STREET ST
STR ST
TERRACE TER
!EOLNOSPACE
,
;
#
!EOLSPACE
FLOOR
SUITE
"P.O. BOX"
!NOSPACE
.
\"
\!
\\
!SPACE
"STATE HIGHWAY"STHWY"
"N ST"NORTH ST"
"S ST"SOUTH ST"
"E ST"EAST ST"
"W ST"WEST ST"
"N AV"NORTH AV"
"S AV"SOUTH AV"
"E AV"EAST AV"
"W AV"WEST AV"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Booth [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:10 AM
> To: 'Straus, Ian'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: MI-L Geocoding: address ranges do not display
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> This seems to ring a bell from the distant past (about five years ago when
> we first got MapInfo).
>
> I think this is caused by the file mapinfow.abb (in the same directory as
> mapinfow.exe), which is a look-up table, set up by default to translate
> full
> names to standard abbreviations (eg AVENUE to AVE): what I think is
> happening is that the house number is somehow getting translated to a name
> (eg 1 to 1st), which is causing the problem.
>
> There are two fixes you could try: either get rid of most or all of
> mapinfow.abb to stop the substitutions, or set up the geocoding
> preferences
> to "house number after street name", and modify your address field
> accordingly. (You might find you have preferences set up like this
> already,
> in which case, ignore the rubbish above, because this will be the cause!).
>
> Hope this helps - and I hope I've remembered right.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> David Booth
> Senior GIS Officer
> Merseyside Information Service
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Straus, Ian [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 18 April 2001 14:40
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: MI-L Geocoding: address ranges do not display
> >
> > I could really use some help preparing files for geocoding by address.
>
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