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Geocoding Errors ...

 
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 8:48am

I just noticed that GPS Visualizer is returning identical
lat:lon's for addresses that are ~7 miles apart.

So I did a test; resending it the same address multiple
times ... and getting multiple lat:lon's.

Anyone else notice this nonsense? This really wrecks my
effort to my additions to the free-WiFi file.

Dunno if the problem is theirs; or, the Yahoo(?) back-end
that they use.

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Mon, 01/30/2012 - 10:04am

GPS Visualizer

The link for GPS Visualizer is:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

I ran a test as of this thread posting.

Using the default Yahoo setting, I entered
5801 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA
twice.

The first search return was:
latitude,longitude,name,desc,color
30.45116,-91.130763,"5801 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA",-,

The second search return was:
latitude,longitude,name,desc,color
30.45116,-91.130763,"5801 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA",-,

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Vince Nuvi 350
Mon, 01/30/2012 - 11:19am

I am not surprised that a

I am not surprised that a sample size of two did not
provoke the problem. I submitted a batch of 8 unique
addresses, dupe'd, to a total request size of 1,000.

Dunno if the problem is the back-end or the JS.

Gonna have to re-do my recent additions for MI, DC
and RTP.

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