Methods for assigning geocodes to street addressable entities
First Claim
1. A geocoding method comprising identifying from orthorectified imagery locations of entities associated with each side of a street segment;
- ordinally numbering the identified locations with respect to positions along each side of the street segment;
determining street addresses associated with each side of the street segment; and
associating the identified locations with the determined street addresses to produce geocoded street addresses for each side of the segment.
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Abstract
A method for assigning of geocodes to addresses identifying entities on a street includes ordering a set of entity geocodes associated with a street segment based on ordering criteria such as the linear distance of the geocodes along the length of the street segment. Assignable addresses are matched with the ordered geocodes creating a correspondence between a numerical order of the assignable addresses and a linear order of the ordered set of geocodes, consistent with address range direction data and street segment side data. The geocodes may be implicit or explicit, locally unique or globally unique. The set of entity geocodes may be obtained by identifying image features in aerial imagery corresponding to streets and buildings and correlating this information with data from a street map database.
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25 Claims
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1. A geocoding method comprising
identifying from orthorectified imagery locations of entities associated with each side of a street segment; -
ordinally numbering the identified locations with respect to positions along each side of the street segment;
determining street addresses associated with each side of the street segment; and
associating the identified locations with the determined street addresses to produce geocoded street addresses for each side of the segment. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A geocoding method comprising:
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obtaining a linearly ordered set of entity geocodes associated with a side of a street segment;
obtaining a linearly ordered set of entity addresses associated with the side of the street segment; and
associating the entity geocodes with the entity addresses by a linearly ordered matching, thereby geocoding the entity addresses. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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