Does SeekData use GPS?
Yes. GPS not only gives SeekData ground truth (sub-meter), but it can be used to verify data accuracy. In the field, we employ our teams with state of the art Trimble® products using Microsoft Windows CE® and Terrasync™ software. That data is then introduced into our unique Puerto Rican geocoder. Q: My Puerto Rican address data is in Spanish and contains hyphens and other punctuations imbedded within the address. Should I convert to English or clean up the punctuations prior to submitting it to SeekData? A: No. Puerto Rican addresses that are entered using one character set (Spanish) and then converted to another non-Spanish or straight ASCII are much more challenging. At times the conversion will delete special Hispanic characters, cause un-natural spaces or change certain characters to completely different characters. Files that originally contained punctuation and then have been subsequently cleansed of punctuation can become much more difficult to parse correctly. Punctuation can b
