Table 9 Operational capabilities results
From: An evaluation framework for comparing geocoding systems
Evaluation metric | Geocoder A | Geocoder B | Geocoder C | Geocoder D | Geocoder E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
User-defined reference data layers license fee (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Specialized address parsing rules (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Specialized matching algorithms (Y/N) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Specialized feature selection hierarchies (Y/N) | Yes | Yes* | Yes* | Yes | Yes |
Integration | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Operating system support (Y/N) | Yes (Unix) | No (Windows) | No (Windows) | Yes (Windows, Unix, Linux) | Windows |
Native system and workflow integration (Y/N) | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Batch mode (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Interactive mode (Y/N) | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Manual review (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Confidentiality maintained (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Desktop version(Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
In-house server version (Y/N) | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Online API version (Y/N) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Metadata | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Match rate (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Match type (Y/N) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Match score (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Available (not by default) | No |
Spatial confidence (Y/N) | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
Input address/matched address concordance (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Capabilities | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Automatic batch geocoding (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Manual review (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Alias tables (Y/N) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Weighted centroids (Y/N) | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Nearby address matching (Y/N) | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |