garage sales part two (geocoding and rendering)
Early Results Here are some early results: Port Huron, MI Rockford, IL These maps show the first page of garage sales on craigslist with about a 50% accuracy rate (meaning, only about 1/2 of time can I find an address). That having been said, it's still pretty impressive as manually entering these things into google maps is.... tedious. This process takes about 60 seconds per city using the script I've written. Back to Geocoding Note, geocoding is the process of attaching geographic coordinates to data. In my case I can find a "reasonable" address in about 1/2 of the entries. This means there is a string somewhere that looks like an address, notably, it has a few numbers, and then a couple of words. To get this data and geocode it, I wrote an awk script $1 ~ /\([0-9]+ .+\)/ {match($1,/([0-9]+ [^\)\(]+)\)/,out); printdata( "\""out[1]"\"")} $1 !~ /\([0-9]+ .+\)/ && $2 ~ /[0-9]+ [a-zA-Z]+ [a-zA-Z]+ /{match($2,/([0-9]...