Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-17 Thread Bogart Salzberg
Portland, Maine has islands which duplicate many of the mainland street names. I guess if you can't get there from here, it's OK. Bogart ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-17 Thread Drew Taylor
On Jun 17, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Ricker, William wrote: So I have about 75k addresses that need to be redone. That's enough to consider a commercial service with value-added data corrections and warranty. Both Eagle and Geocoder.US offer that. I redid my math last night, and Eagle offers 100k

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-17 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Joel Gwynn wrote: When you get right down to it, this Boston neighborhood thing is just confusing. I work in Dorchester but management likes to put Boston on the stationary, which is confusing because there's an identical address in Boston proper, just with a

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-17 Thread John Macdonald
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:45:33AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Uri Guttman wrote: my favorite one is the intersection of huron and fresh pond parkway in cambridge. if you are going east on huron when you hit that spot on the far left corner is a set of highway marker

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-17 Thread Mark J. Dulcey
Sounds like the stretch of road -- now sadly renumbered, I think -- that was simultaneously Route 128 South and Interstate 93 North, hence http://devers.homeip.net:8080/images/128.gif What made that stretch of road even more wonderfully twisted is the fact that you were traveling EAST at

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-17 Thread Mike T. Machenry
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:34:27AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: But then, it's not even always assimilation. People all over the world know that Harvard Square is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it isn't, as far as I know, a formal geographic boundary in any useful sense -- it's just a

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-17 Thread Tolkin, Steve
. -Original Message- From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 11:34 AM To: Joel Gwynn Cc: Boston.PM; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Joel Gwynn wrote: When you get right down to it, this Boston

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Joel Gwynn
Thanks for the kudos. I actually started out with Geo::Coder::US, which is very good, especially for the price ;) But it wasn't quite good enough. For example, a search for 69 prince st boston, ma should return two matches, one in Boston, and one in JP, but neither GCU (or rather the TIGER data

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Joel Gwynn
According to the Post Office, all of Boston is OK to be called Boston, differentiated by Zip Code. The parts of JP that are served by the JP postoffice can be called JP. (Allston neighborhood in Brighton was named by realtors since PO would deliver by the name of the post-office named for a

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Joel Gwynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:59:55 -0400 According to the Post Office, all of Boston is OK to be called Boston, differentiated by Zip Code. The parts of JP that are served by the JP postoffice can be called JP . . . Bill When you

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Joel Gwynn
On 6/16/05, Drew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:51 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote: Of course, until Google Maps is officially released, and until the get more specific about their TOS, this is all just having fun. Not to nitpick, but the Maps TOS basically says, See our

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Ben Tilly
On 6/16/05, Joel Gwynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] When you get right down to it, this Boston neighborhood thing is just confusing. I work in Dorchester but management likes to put Boston on the stationary, which is confusing because there's an identical address in Boston proper, just with

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Uri Guttman
JG == Joel Gwynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JG When you get right down to it, this Boston neighborhood thing is JG just confusing. I work in Dorchester but management likes to put JG Boston on the stationary, which is confusing because there's an JG identical address in Boston proper,

Re: [Boston.pm] Geo::Coder::US RE: GoogleGeoCoder

2005-06-16 Thread Uri Guttman
BT == Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BT Q: What do you call a Boston tourist? BT A: Lost. BT However, that notwithstanding, it is nowhere near Boston in BT being difficult to find your way around. when my parents would drive up to visit me in my college days, i would tell them if