[Xastir-dev] first cut at geocoder

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Likely, then, your area hasn't been updated in overflights since 1992 or 
earlier, or if it was updated, it was using a non-rectified image. 
There's a little bit of trivia here... Until 2000, when they started 
mandating digital imagery and GPS tracking/registration/rectification, 
most of the digitization was done by USGS high school and undergrad 
interns for minimum wage, over the summer.  Hence, the long delays 
getting images digitized and products out.  And the potential for 
errors.  About the time the kids got really good at digitization, they'd 
get a raise.  They were still digitizing by hand thru Tiger96, but had 
automated the process somewhat...

gerry

Tom Russo wrote:
> 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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