Rooftop geocoding introduced to Google Maps; Time for a Virtual Earth rematch? »
By William M. Hartnett on May 1, 2008 in featured, geekery | 1 Comment
Here’s an incredibly welcome development: Rooftop geocoding for 50 million U.S. addresses was just rolled out in the Google Maps API. Careful readers will recall my colleague Matt’s head-to-head comparison of geocoding accuracy in Google Maps and Virtual Earth, which I wrote about back in January. Briefly, 85 percent of Virtual Earth’s results were closer [...]
