[Xastir-dev] first cut at geocoder

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Thu Apr 1 02:04:21 EST 2004


On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Curt Mills wrote:

> > > Which one are we using?  Should we snag both, average them, and put
> > > an 'X' in the middle?
> >
> > We're using the one in the middle, that matches the address we wanted.

ah. well, the "right" answer would be to grab the shape from the RT2 file,
but iirc the geocoder doesn't keep that data.

> > > Should we draw a wide highlight line between the two points like
> > > I've seen some software do?
> >
> > Why?
>
> So that we can tell people which road segment is the most likely for
> containing the address.

fair enough



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