I have been trying to geocode using the Tiger\line county files downloaded from the US Census website. I fabricated a short data file of address in the format of "address,city,state,zip" with a added results field to view the outcome of the geocoding process. I had to change the file structure becuase the filed "address" looked like "200 W 97th St". The Tiger "FENAME" field would only have "97th" . So I changed the "FENAME" field to include "FEDIRP,FENAME,FETYPE,FEDIRS" with correct spacing and removing any spaces in from with the LTRIM$() function. In the geocoding process I matched the address field with the street number removed, "W 97th St", and had the limiting boundary be the Municipal City Districts. The outcome was only a 66% match rate (13 out of the 24 addresses). Is there another way to increase the match rate? How does the Geocode program in Mapinfo read street numbers?
Thanks for any help! Brad C GIS Tech GIS Department, SuperValu --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 5521
