Let me get your proposed concept straight.

You'd like for Google, who have a method and a means for points to be corrected through the community aspects of the model -- to turn around and give these corrected data-points away?

That is very interesting, and in consideration that I've never once seen an industry model by anyone out there who would be willing to give-out a corrected set to any other supplier.

Please correct me if I'm wrong in this thinking.

I wouldn't consider that the same model, Luc. What Google has the capability to do -- within the community model they have -- is to 're-register' or 'correct' points of interest (POI). That is potentially significant, considering that we're talking about 'enhancing' various layers to become more accurate from what was supplied to them by source.

They very well could consider giving it away, if they so chose to do so. I would imagine that would also depend on their supplier agreements since the 'enhanced' version is based on the original source.

Actually, Jim. It'd be relatively easy to parse input data and double, triple, quadruple-check points based on >x inputs per point. In time, the dataset becomes for meaningful, more accurate based on such an approach. In that sense, if any of the points are far away from an acceptable margin, they'd be scrapped in favor of those points that are within a very distinct position. Those points could then be averaged, for instance, to generate a finalized point.

I mean, if we're talking about address anomolies -- which are far too frequent in most datasets as it is, any improvements made [wisely] would be an asset moving forward, wouldn't you agree? Unless anyone has a better, more efficient method of handling such a task that they might like to propose?

Your only other option is hiring and rigging an army of people with GPS in order to take the correct points in literally every neighboorhood and city block and matching those points to each address label.

Both options are possible. Which one would be prefered?

I can't argue with that, Marc. But I do see more potential if it can be applied eventually.