Assessing the certainty of locations produced by an address geocoding system

GeoInformatica

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 103-129

  Davis Jr , Clodoveu A ^a   Fonseca, Frederico T ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Address geocoding; Certainty assessment; Geographic information systems; Postal addresses; Spatial databases

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

ADDRESS GEOCODING; CERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; GEOCODING CERTAINTY INDICATOR; LEGACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POSTAL ADDRESSES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DATABASE; GIS; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 33847622632     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-006-0015-7     Document Type: Article

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