Reference data and geocoding quality: Examining completeness and positional accuracy of street geocoded crime incidents

Policing

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 263-294

  Hart, Timothy C ^a   Zandbergen, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime analysis; Crime mapping; Data analysis; Geocoding; GIS; Hit rate; Law enforcement; Match rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878229951     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639511311329705     Document Type: Article

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