Geocoding Quality and Implications for Spatial Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul A Zandbergen (0000-0002-7833-3767, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 647-680 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00205.x |
| OpenAlex | W2097562313 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 47 |
Many spatial analysis techniques rely on the ability to geocode individual locations based on addresses or other descriptive information. The quality of geocoding and its effect on spatial analysis have received some attention in the literature, in particular in the field of health. This article reviews the foundation of geocoding and presents a framework for evaluating geocoding quality. Errors introduced by street gecoding include incompleteness, positional error, and incorrect assignment to geographic units. A review of empirical studies suggests that these errors are neither small nor random in nature and that substantial bias may be introduced in spatial analysis that employs the results of geocoding. Several alternatives have also emerged, including the use of address points and parcels, and these are gradually becoming more widely used. Several areas for future research on geocoding have been identified: (i) refinements of address data models to incorporate complex addressing situations; (ii) development of error propagation techniques to determine the level of geocoding quality required for a particular analysis scenario; (iii) development of measures of reliability for geocoding results; (iv) comparative analysis of geocoding quality across different jurisdictions; and (v) validation of online geocoding services and volunteered geographic information
Cartography · Data mining · Data science · Geocoding · Geographic information system · Geography · Computer Science · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis · Urban Transport and Accessibility
Methodology for a Human-Centric CIM
Spatial Heterogeneity in Positional Errors
The location swapping method for geomasking
Geocoding Error, Spatial Uncertainty, and Implications for Exposure Assessment and Environmental Epidemiology
Identifying the Uncertainty in Physician Practice Location through Spatial Analytics and Text Mining
The IAB-SMART-Mobility Module
Theft Address Extraction and Classification from Chinese Judicial Documents Based on Large Language Model
A Hybrid Spatio-Textual Matching Approach for Evaluating Historical Web-Derived Address Data with Spatial Consistency Assessment
The case of electoral polling station data for geocoding in facilitating accessibility to social, economic and cultural opportunities in Ghana
W-TextCNN
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Testing the Spatial Accuracy of Address-Based Geocoding for Gunshot Locations
Spatial pattern analysis of address quality
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The Effect and Implications of Sex Offender Residence Restrictions
Drug and Substance Abuse Point of Interest (POI) conflation and spatial attribute enrichment framework
The impact of incomplete geocoding on small area population estimates
Spatial weighting improves accuracy in small-area demographic forecasts of urban census tract populations
Designing and Evaluating a Hierarchical Framework for Matching Food Outlets across Multi-sourced Geospatial Datasets
Mapping Cold War Civil Defense in Aarhus, Denmark
Missing Data and Other Measurement Quality Issues in Mobile Geolocation Sensor Data
Using GIS to Advance Social Economics Research
Quality evaluation of postal address datasets measuring their autocorrelation
A Parcel Level Housing Conditions Survey in Academic and Civil Context
Registration of apartments and office spaces in 3D land administration – A case study in Croatia
A Comparative Evaluation of Error and Bias in Census Tract-Level Age/Sex-Specific Population Estimates
Undercoverage Rates and Undercoverage Bias in Traditional Housing Unit Listing
The sensitivity of repeat and near repeat analysis to geocoding algorithms
Geocoding for public health research
Improving geocoding matching rates of structured addresses in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Creating Housing Unit Frames from Address Databases
Geocoding crime and a first estimate of a minimum acceptable hit rate
Influence of geocoding quality on environmental exposure assessment of children living near high traffic roads
Protection of Geoprivacy and Accuracy of Spatial Information
Geographic Information Technologies and Personal Privacy
U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Support
The accuracy of address coding and the effects of coding errors
The credibility of volunteered geographic information
Commentary
Volunteered geographic information
Conceptual and practical issues in the detection of local disease clusters
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |