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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:03:50 CST
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- From: Alan Rea <gwdokokl!ahrea@MAILHOST.ECN.UOKNOR.EDU>
- Subject: Key Map geocoding software?
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- Last week, while 'doing time' at a shopping mall while other family
- members were doing last minute Christmas shopping, I was browsing
- through the PC software store, and a package called "Key Map" caught
- my eye. It claims to do geocoding, and supposedly contains maps
- for the entire US. The description on the box was not very specific
- about what sort of scale maps they were talking about, but made the
- claim that the package could geocode any address in the US to within
- something like 30 meters!
-
- The blurb on the package also talked about city maps that could be
- added (sold separately, of course), and emphasized their 'open' data
- structure that allowed users to easily add their own data sets.
-
- Having tried to do some geocoding before using ARC/INFO and TIGER
- files, I find it hard to believe that a $50 package like this can
- actually contain enough data (out of the box, that is) to geocode to
- the accuracy claimed for the entire US, but perhaps the package does
- provide an inexpensive and open approach to geocoding that would serve
- the purposes of many users.
-
- Does anyone have more details about the Key Map package, and the
- functionality it provides? In particular, such a package would be of
- interest to me if it allowed easy access to geocoding, especially if
- it has a sufficiently open approach and allows input from large input
- lists stored in files, rather than just interactive input.
-
-
-
- ahrea@gwdokokl.UUCP (Alan Rea) * "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those
- "opinions are my own..." * who falsely believe they are free" -- Goethe
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