Evaluation of the positional difference between two common geocoding methods

Geospatial Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-273

  Duncan, Dustin T ^a   Castro, Marcia C ^a   Blossom, Jeffrey C ^b   Bennett, Gary G ^a,c   Steven, L G Gortmaker G ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Addresses; Arcgis; Batchgeo; Geocoding; Positional difference; Usa

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052049834     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2011.179     Document Type: Article

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