Efficient Error-Correcting Geocoding
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We study the problem of resolving a perhaps misspelled address of a location into geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude. Our data structure solves this problem within a few milliseconds even for misspelled and fragmentary queries. Compared to major geographic search engines such as Google or Bing we achieve results of significantly better quality.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1102.3306 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011