LIETUVIŠKŲ ADRESŲ GEOKODAVIMO PROBLEMOS IR JŲ SPRENDIMO BŪDAI
LITHUANIAN ADDRESS GEOCODING: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

Summary/Abstract: Geocoding is the process of converting of a textual description of a location into geographic coordinates. One of the most frequently used way to describe a place is its postal address that contains a city name, street name, house number and other address components. The paper deals with the problems of the geocoding of Lithuanian addresses. The main problems are variety of used address formats and possible typing and spelling errors. The paper describes the steps of the geocoding process and used algorithms. We propose a phonetic algorithm called LT-Soundex, adapted for the Lithuanian language and enabling to index addresses components by phonetic similarity and perform approximate address searching. It is used with Levenshtein distance for effective approximate address searching.

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