Geocoding Bare Land (Unaddressed) Parcels
A press release from SurftheTurf.com, a new real estate mashup (Google Map-based), explains that the site offers something other sites do not: the geocoding of bare land parcels, that is parcels without addresses.
Designed by Margaret Hokkanen, the Team’s lead real estate agent, these maps solve the problem of determining where a parcel of land for sale is located. “Some real estate web sites allow you to display land for sale in a list, but they often they cannot show you where the parcels are located on a map,” explains Hokkanen. “The difficulties arise because bare land parcels have no house and often no corresponding US Postal Service address. Without a valid address, the real estate mapping tools found on other sites typically fail to display the property or put it in the wrong location.”
Ms. Hokkanen states that they solved the location problem for the vast majority of the San Diego listings.
The release does not say how they do it, but for now the properties are marked with a point symbol; in time they hope to include boundary information.
