Hi Ben,
I’ve done a little more testing and for certain addresses I’m not getting the correct result or I’m doing something wrong in the plugin setup. Our address here is 313 W Liberty St. There are two results for Liberty St., but not the right ones: the results are in a different part of the county. The address 313 matches the range, but the results are for Liberty St., not W Liberty St. It appears to be ignoring the “W” part. We have the direction in STREET_DIR, but I don’t see a place to assign this to the plugin. I tried the prefix column and it didn’t seem to change anything. When I use my home address, which doesn’t have a direction, it’s the first match that comes up. This is important of course, since there is data with address 313 for both E. Liberty and W. Liberty street. Any thoughts as to what could be causing this?
Also, I noticed when I put in my home address, 401 Eden Rd, it works, but when I put in 401 Eden Road, it finds no matches.
To answer your question…no, that isn’t what I was asking about. The data I’m using at the moment (and this is typical for our application) is for all of Lancaster County, PA, because this is what the application map shows. But when we try to geocode an address, we know it’s for a certain municipality–in the application the user selects the municipality of interest–say the city of Lancaster, as opposed to something like East Earl Township which is on the east side of the county. It think it would be nice to tell the geocoder up front which municipalities to check to avoid unneeded matches outside the municipality the user is working with.
I hope to get this “W Liberty” issue resolved and let the boss test it. He’s the one that makes the decisions and pays for stuff like this.
Thanks,
Allen