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.
During this past week I've been at home ill. Hope to be back in the office soon to resume documentation and other support for the software. Sorry about the delay. Borchers
I work as a CDC-funded Research Analyst for Wisconsin Pub. Health (Off. of Health Informatics.) My foci include the quality of disease tracking data and GIS. My education is largely in geography and policy analysis (Univ of Minnesota, Univ of Chicago, Vermont Law School Env Law Ctr.) I've used ArcGIS and Centrus software for over a decade.
