[gps-talkusers] Question about alpha characters in an address field
- From: Charles LaPierre <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:19:24 -0800
Hello everyone,
I am trying to get a handle on how big this issue really is.
I know that in Wisconsin for example there are a number of addresses
which have letters in the address portion of an address, which
currently our software doesn't handle.
Example: (which was submitted to us)
w234 n5948 Lilac Drive
Sussex WI 53089
I did try that above address in Google maps and didn't find the
specific address either so I am really confused now.
So does this mean that all address lookups in Sendero GPS in
Wisconsin fails? Do only 10% of addresses fail, or its about 50/50 or what?
Sendero realizes this is an issue just like we realize there is an
issue with Roundabouts but again we have to priorities things.
I also want to say that this alpha/numeric issue is as big of a code
change as UK roundabouts if not more. I also want to say that the
fix for handling alpha characters in addresses will occur at the same
time where we revamp the entire address indexing/searching portion of
the code. It doesn't make sense for me to spend a ton of time fixing
something I will be ripping out when we finally handle zipcode
address searching for example. So please be patient as there is a
method to our madness (smile).
Now this doesn't mean once we handle alpha numeric addresses we will
have zipcode indexing but steps have to be taken down a new path to
handle both of these highly sot after features. They may occur
together or may not, all I am saying is this is a HUGE code change
bigger than anything we have done previously and when we finally do
this we want to do it right.
Thanks
Charles
Charles M. La Pierre CTO
Sendero Group, LLC
Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" W
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