Address to Position Converter

To map the location and display latitude and longitude of a street address in Hawaii:
Fill in a street address, of the form:

NNNN [D] streetname street-type [d]

Where:

(don't type the square brackets; they're there to show you that the part in the brackets is optional)
Or, just hit "SUBMIT" to try the sample address.


Select A Hawaii County:


Notes:

"City" (really Post Office) name does not matter, since all of Oahu is a single municipality.

Upper and lower case, street-type abbreviations and directional abbreviations should all work.

For example:


should all be the same...

If you don't know the directional prefix or suffix, or the precise street type (Street, Avenue, Boulevard, etc.), then omitting them should produce a list of possible correctly formatted queries. (try "1500 King")
Note that the Tiger Street names sometimes insert a space after a "Mc" in a Scottish/Irish surname; McKinley Street appears as "Mc Kinley Street". I will have to fix this, either in the data or in the script...

I have fixed all of the problems that I have found with this form and its CGI script. There are no known bugs, but that doesn't mean that there aren't bugs, or special-case addresses that won't work. For my part, I'm glad Honolulu doesn't have an "Avenue of the Americas".

Right now, GeoDoggy performs all of its functions by assuming that any street segment is a straight line between the two nodes. In this context, a "node" is where the street intersects something else, like another street, a stream, a political boundary. What this means is that on street segments that curve, the position shown, as well as name placement, etc. will be off. This will get fixed -- I just wanted to work on something besides the map renderer for a while...

According to the Bureau of the Census Tiger Line data, there are 3 block-long streets on Oahu that have addresses that do not fit into either a "pure" number (e.g. 2134, 1500, 666), or a hyphenated number (98-599, 24-1300) format. Those three streets, if Tiger is correct about their address formats, will not work in this form. No, of course I'm not going to tell you were they are. (Neener-neener...)