id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc 1052,"Tiger Geocoder 2010 Geocode() ""squishing"" toward end of block",mikepease,robe,"I've been comparing the results of the Tiger Geocoder to Google's Geocoder. I sent in a list of about 70,000 addresses in Minnesota. I'm getting about 89% successful results where Google's geocode and Tiger's geocode produce similar results. Not bad. One difference that I'd love to see in the Tiger Geocoder would be to place an address point either on the even or odd side of the street. It appears that the geocodes are all placed on the center line of the street. Is that correct? It would be super cool if you could determine which side of the street an address is on and then shift the geocode to that side, say by 20 meters (65 feet). Now, determining which angle to translate the point can be a trick, for sure. I did a similar operation in the past by grabbing a short line segment from the street and rotating it 90 degrees in order to find the even/odd side offsets from the center line. That code looked like this: rotate_oncenter( MakeLine(ST_Line_Interpolate_Point(ST_GeometryN(the_geom,1), offset_percent1 ), ST_Line_Interpolate_Point(ST_GeometryN(the_geom,1), offset_percent2 )) , 90) as rotated_line ... then you could use the end points of this rotated segment to get the even/odd odd side of the street. ST_Line_Interpolate_Point(rotated_line,0) --even side of street ST_Line_Interpolate_Point(rotated_line,1) --odd side of street ",enhancement,closed,medium,PostGIS Fund Me,tiger geocoder,master,wontfix,,mikepease woodbri