[Xastir-dev] first cut at geocoder

[Tom Russo]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:42:13AM -0500, a Mr. Richard Feyler of Fort Lee, New Jersey <shadow at dementia.org> writes 'Dear Rosanne Rosannadanna':
> > Yes, thanks Derrick!
> 
> All I did was some glue; Dan Egnor is the person to thank.

Thanks for the glue, then.  This is cool.

> > I've been toying with this functionality a bit today.  I like it.
> 
> Amusingly it can't find my parents' house (I suspect a flaw in the Tiger
> data)

Well, yeah, there is that.  It can't find my mother's house either,
and the Tiger data is wildly inaccurate in my area, too --- the census
data has a completely bogus polyline for my own street (it comes
nowhere near where the street really is, and has all the wrong kinks
and curves), and naturally places my house on that bogus line.  But it
does get close enough for getting into the right vicinity and I can
see it being useful even with the limitations of the data.

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