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Batch address to GPS conversion

 
Fri, 01/11/2008 - 7:17pm

I tried converting a large quantity of addresses, about 100 of them, into coordinates using gpsvisualizer.com. I thougth it worked well but when I was trying out one of them today, it was way, way off. So I started looking at others on maps that allowed you to plot a coordinate or on pages that convert a coordinate to an address. Many of them were way off.

I'm wondering if there is a list of sites out there that are fairly accurate with batch conversions for POIs? The gps visualizer site uses Yahoo to convert, so I wonder if Yahoo is not the best for this type of conversion?

I've looked around the internet and can't find many websites that have batch conversion or that are fairly simple to use. I would like to either upload a CSV file to be converted or highlight all of the data and then paste it into the site or the software.

Thanks for the help everyone.
John

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Fri, 01/11/2008 - 7:25pm

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rodeman wrote:

I tried converting a large quantity of addresses,...into coordinates using gpsvisualizer.com....Many of them were way off.
...I wonder if Yahoo is not the best for this type of conversion?

It's not really Yahoo!'s fault, nor Gpsvisualizer's come to that ...

See this thread:

arrow http://www.poi-factory.com/node/8734

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