Address Matching: GIS Technology for Mapping Human Activity Patterns

Address matching is the process of adding locational information to a database containing business, survey, or administrative records. It is a very powerful GIS technology, because it can transform any existing database with street addresses into a GIS database that can be mapped or used as input in...

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Published inJournal of the American Planning Association Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 240 - 251
Main Author Drummond, William J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, D.C Taylor & Francis Group 01.04.1995
American Planning Association
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Address matching
Applications
Censuses
Community
Enhancement
Geographic information systems
Guidelines
Human geography
Mapping
Planning
Planning methods
Social behaviour
Software
Technology
United States
Urban areas
Urban planning
United States > US
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Summary:Address matching is the process of adding locational information to a database containing business, survey, or administrative records. It is a very powerful GIS technology, because it can transform any existing database with street addresses into a GIS database that can be mapped or used as input into more sophisticated spatial analyses. Address matching is inexpensive, as well, since it can be performed on microcomputers with low-cost GIS software and the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line files. Although address matching has a number of important limitations, it is nevertheless one of the most cost-effective means for applying GIS mapping and spatial analysis tools to the country's pressing urban problems.
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ISSN:0194-4363
1939-0130
DOI:10.1080/01944369508975636