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Old 02-27-2005
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Yes this can be done with a little bit of programming.

Be aware that it is unlikely that MapPoint will find 100% of the addresses. This might be due to spelling mistakes, new addresses, changes of zipcode, etc,etc.

I've seen hit-rates on this kind of batch search as low as 65% (Scotland, MapPoint 2002), and close to 100% (dairies in the US).

UK addresses are more informal than US ones - hence the very low hit rate.
For the UK example, I actually tried a few variations, mapping the database address fields to the MapPoint fields in different ways. This added a few percent to the hit rate.


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