Mobile Location Services: The Definitive Guide

Geocoding

A fundamental service required by many mobile location service applications is the ability to look up an address on a map. This is known as geocoding. For example, if your location service application requires a route calculation between two locations, it is necessary to first geocode the start and end points of the route to make sure that they are valid addresses and that they can be found in the map database. For mobile location services it is necessary to have an address level geocoder (one that can geocode to a specific street address). There are many products that geocode to either a postal code or street level of accuracy, but neither provides sufficient accuracy for mobile location services.

There are many challenges in geocoding, ...