PHACT: Public Health Address Checking Tool

For our work in public health disease tracking, it is wise, when case abstracts are prepared (before submission to our central data center) to validate addresses against the reference data and standardize it thereby. This is to obviate subsequent geocoding errors by necessarily imperfect geocoding software. Christian Klaus of NC Public Health has collaborated with me to explore flexible, low-cost access to current USPS data and to make and share free open-source software to use it.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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Dear Public Health Colleagues:

The Plan: By or before the week of September 27-October 3 (sorry about the delay!), we expect to post in this space video demonstrations of a version of the WI-NC Address Validation/Standardization in operation, as well as links to general, installation, and user documentation.

Thanks for your patience.

Meanwhile, Robt Borchers can provide installation files, installation and user guidance. Special full-scale demionstration datasets are available for about 1/3 of the States. Please call 608-266-0633.

PHACT: Public Health Address Checking Tool

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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