Re: finding stores near an address.

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From: Otis Viles
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 00:00

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 04:11:48 +0800, "H. McDaniel" <haji@wolfenet.com> wrote:
>All of the data for converting an address in a city to a lattitude and
>longitude already exist. Probably more than one company has gone through
>the trouble of creating city specific rules for converting the address
>to a reasonable aproximate coordinate location, though I imagine that
>they'd have blind spots when you get too far outside of the major urban
>areas though.

Vicinity Corporation (www.vicinity.com) performs geocoding of most addresses
in the United States and Canada and has a tool for helping you find the
an approximate latitude and longitude when they can't code it.
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From: Otis Viles <cierhart@ic.net>
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Date: 2000/01/05
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