On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:51:40PM +0000, Mats Elfström wrote:
> 
> This is a case where the command 'Create View' comes into use.
> It's an obscure feature of MapInfo, little known but very handy.
> Bill Thoen wrote a summary last year in july.

Actually, it turns out that street geocoding doesn't require that the
street data be in view format. That's juat a device to save disk space. You
do have to have the fields named FromLeft, ToLeft, etc. and possibly the
field that contains the street name should be called "Street". The street
field MUST be indexed, and for geocoding to work your address street names
must match the spelling in the TIGER file. It's case-insensitive, but if
the street is named 'N Main St' in the TIGER file, then your address table
will have to also use 'N Main St' as in '1101 N Main St' and not just '1101 Main
St' or '1101 North Main Street'.
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