[gps-talkusers] Re: e: I'm having a very odd situation:

Jim and others,

A method that I personally use when I cannot find an address is one of the 
following:
1. Try keying the address into maps.google.com to see if there is some 
prefix as SW in the street name or to see if the common city name may be 
different than the mapping city name. I will then take the information from 
Google and input it again into the Sendero GPS. This works about 95% of the 
time.
2. If both the Sendero GPS and maps.google address lookup fail then I will 
result to lat/lon. I will use a tool that the Loadstone team developed that 
allows you to input an address and it will give you the latitude and 
longitude coordinates for that address. Using this method you don't have to 
worry that whether or not if TeleAtlas is doing their wierd city limit thing 
or you don't have to go through the entire address lookup exercise. The link 
is:
http://www.loadstone-gps.com/tools/

There are two tools that I use from this site:
Geocoder, tool that will take an address and convert it into latitude and 
longitude
Degrees to decimal converter, will convert latitude and longitude 
coordinates from the format presented with the "Y" command into the format 
TeleAtlas prefers when reporting mapping discrepancies.

So, Jim with your example I was able to find out that the street lakeside dr 
had a SW prefix by using maps.google.com. But,Mary with your example of 
Stanley Dr I had to resort to the Loadstone tool and go off by latitude and 
longitude. I would say that between these two additional methods you are 
sure to find any address on the face of this planet.

Happing address finding

Kevin


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jim gammon" <jgammon1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:44 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] e: I'm having a very odd situation:


> Hi, I had a kind of similar situation looking up a relative's address in 
> Topeka Kansas.  They live on Lakeside Drive.  Well, turns out that it's 
> not just Lakeside, but Southwest, or sw Lakeside Drive I could find the 
> place when I virtually drove there from nearby like you did.   It also 
> helped when I talked with them on the phone and they told me, oh yah it's 
> southwest Lakeside, not simply Lakeside Drive.  Also, sometimes you need 
> to be in an area near the city not actually in the city.  For example, 
> around here there are 2 choices for Berkeley, Berkeley Area, and just 
> Berkeley.  So it still ain't easy to find some places sometimes.  Good 
> luck!
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx
>>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Date sent: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:48:51 -0700
>>Subject: [gps-talkusers] I'm having a very odd situation:
>
>>Hi folks! I just have had a very odd situation.
>>My Brother lives at  a house on astreet called   Stanley Road,
> Cincinnati,
>>Ohio 45230.
>>Ok Now I did an address look up and the gps said no street
> available and so
>>I knew that in order to get to this street he had to go up a
> street called
>>Beechmont avenue.
>>Ok so I found Beechmont Avenue with 2 choices and I entered on
> the 45230.
>>Ok so I traveled virtually up beechmont and bingo on the left was
> Stanley
>>Road.  So I turned in to Stanley Road and all the little streets
> which my
>>Brother told me about were there and his house is at the very end
> of the
>>road.  So when I got at the dead end, I recorded a poi as his
> address.
>>Ok Here is where things get weird.  I went back again did an
> address lookup
>>and I got the message No street found for Stanley Road.  Is this
> a Tellyatlas
>>thing or a Sendero thing?
>>I was telling Dan that his street was nowhere to be found and his
> response
>>was "Well we really do live there."
>>But I can do this again and get the Lat Lon if this is what is
> needed but
>>why wouldn't this show up on the streets if the street does come
> up in a
>>manual search?
>>Thanks for reading.
>>Mary Ellen Earls
>
>
>
>

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