On 4/18/2012 4:02 PM, Ian Dees wrote:
It's interesting if you look these up on the GNIS site. What's the source for them? Well, they got a local phone book and looked up schools and churches :)Most of these came from scanned USGS maps. In some cases they were OCR'd and in other cases they were typed in by a human. I believe those maps had similar symbology for a "historical" POI and "current" POI, thus all the old/out of date information.
USGS topos don't have church names, in my experience. When I look up local churches I see the following two sources: Citation: White Pages Telephone Directory. www.whitepages.com. Use Form FL-T74/City/Date Orlando/2006 Citation: Southern Bell, Greater Orlando Yellow Pages, including Apopka, East Orange, Lake Buena Vista, Montverde, Oviedo, Reedy Creek, Windermere, Winter Garden, Winter Park and other nearby communities, Bell South Advertising and Publishing Corporation, 1986, 1476 pp. Contains listings of churches. p291
Presumably they used TIGER to geocode the addresses. I've seen some that are in the right position for the address number but on the wrong side of the zero line.
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