Patent ID: 7987218

Claim:
A method for establishing a spatial street address data set; the method comprising: (a) in no particular order: (1) providing a street address data set containing at least community entry and street name entry information; (2) providing a postal data set containing at least street name entry information; (3) providing a community translation data set containing at least community entry information; and (4) providing a spatial layer base map containing at least one spatial community entry; (b) employing selected information from said street address data set, said community translation data set and said spatial layer base map for establishing a first interim data base; said first interim data base containing a plurality of once-translated address entries; each respective once-translated address entry of said plurality of once-translated address entries replacing a respective spatial community entry of said at least one spatial community entry; each said respective once-translated address entry relating to a selected community entry from said street address data set or relating to a selected community entry from said community translation data set; (c) employing said first interim data base and selected information from said street address data set and said postal data set for establishing a second interim data base; said second interim data base containing a plurality of twice-translated address entries; each respective twice-translated address entry of said plurality of twice-translated address entries replacing a respective street name entry in said first interim data base; each said respective twice-translated address entry relating to a selected street name entry from said postal data set or relating to a selected street name entry from said street address data set; (d) treating said second interim data base with a geocoder routine to create geocoded address entries in a geocoded data set; (e) situating said geocoded data set in a spatial layer; and (f) orienting said spatial layer with respect to known loci in said spatial layer base map.