[aprssig] GPS Help

Jason Winningham jdw at eng.uah.edu
Thu Jul 12 06:48:17 EDT 2007


On Jul 11, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Richard Amirault wrote:

> but I'm pretty sure that the lat/lon listed there is not for each  
> hams *house*!!

Yep.  The address on their FCC license, anyway, if it's a street  
address and not aPO box.

There is a method to assigning street address numbers in the US, and  
geocoders will make a reasonable effort (some better than others) to  
derive a lat/lon from an address.

Xastir uses data derived from the census TIGER data, and it does  
quite a reasonable job based on the few addresses I've been able to  
verify; YMMV.

-Jason
kg4wsv







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