On Sep 29, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Scott Davis wrote:
- I also asked the site admin if there is a download anywhere that
contains the spatial data. Elsewhere on the site, you can search
for colleges within X miles radius of a zipcode, so I assume that
there is spatial data hanging out somewhere. Whether it is a quick
download away is another question.
- Barring a simple hyperlink appearing magically with spatial data
included, my plan is to write a quick script that will walk the
file and geocode each row using http://geocoder.us. My final
question to the site admin was whether I could repost the csv and
shapefile with the newly added spatial data at http://
www.mapmap.org . (Or better yet, send it back to them to host...)
I ended up geocoding the addresses in the file to get the spatial
data. It isn't perfect (a bunch of 'addresses' aren't real
addresses), but gave me fairly good coverage. I should mention that I
used a commercial geocoder, though.
Martin
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