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Modeling the probability distribution of positional errors incurred by residential address geocoding

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Geographics, 2007
Background The assignment of a point-level geocode to subjects' residences is an important data assimilation component of many geographic public health studies. Often, these assignments are made by a method known as automated geocoding, which attempts to
Mazumdar Soumya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Metropolitan Startup Rates: Regional Factors Associated with Startup Growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Understanding what fosters -- and hinders -- firm formation and growth at the metropolitan level across the United States is a challenge. Entrepreneurship can be measured by a variety of indicators, and they each can tell somewhat different stories ...
Jordan Bell-Masterson, Yasuyuki Motoyama
core   +1 more source

Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil 1753-18401

open access: yesFronteiras: Journal of Social, Technological and Environmental Science, 2013
This article analyzes the pressure of farming on tropical forests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazil. Making use of GIS technology, it was possible to create a map for the South Central of the Minas Gerais province and geocode historical data ...
Frederico Santos Soares de Freitas
doaj   +1 more source

Using HyperLogLog to Prevent Data Retention in Social Media Streaming Data Analytics

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023
Social media data are widely used to gain insights about social incidents, whether on a local or global scale. Within the process of analyzing and evaluating the data, it is common practice to download and store it locally.
Marc Löchner, Dirk Burghardt
doaj   +1 more source

Smartphone-assisted spatial data collection improves geographic information quality: pilot study using a birth records dataset

open access: yesGeospatial Health, 2016
It is well known that the conventional, automated geocoding method based on self-reported residential addresses has many issues. We developed a smartphone-assisted aerial image-based method, which uses the Google Maps application programming interface as
Xiaohui Xu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geocoding police collision report data from California: a comprehensive approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Background Collision geocoding is the process of assigning geographic descriptors, usually latitude and longitude coordinates, to a traffic collision record.
John M Bigham   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

Assessing the role of spatial externalities in the survival of Italian innovative startups

open access: yesRegional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The paper provides novel empirical evidence about the effects of spatial externalities on the survival of innovative startups in Italy. Using geocoded firm‐level data, we build micro‐geographic measures of specialization and diversity that are robust to the modifiable areal unit problem.
Diego Giuliani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Practical approach for modifying existing geocoding system from equal angular to equal area [PDF]

open access: yesИкономика и компютърни науки, 2023
Geocoding systems are essential for the rapid processing of large volumes of spatial data. There are numerous geocoding systems, each of which divides the space into subspaces with a unique geometric shape and employs a different approach of creating its
Pavel Petrov
doaj  

Merging Historical Archives with Remote Sensing Data: A Methodology to Improve Rockfall Mitigation Strategy for Small Communities

open access: yesLand, 2022
Both in the literature and in practical applications, several works have dealt with rockfall analysis and the planning of mitigation measures. It is also possible to find inventories and papers that describe historical events.
Davide Notti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical geocoding assistant

open access: yesSoftwareX, 2021
The growing use of geographic information systems (GIS) and geographical analyses in different areas of the digital humanities highlights the need for geocoding, i.e. assigning geographic coordinates to records in a dataset. Such spatially-referenced datasets are a precondition for any spatial analysis and visualization.
Mertel, A.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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