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

Way cool Kevin, I will try that address converter thingee you talk about. Sounds really intriguing! Thanks, Jim
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Chao" <g.unit89@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:33 PM
Subject: [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> 
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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
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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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