API Developers Forum Ideas

Hi Everyone,

First off, I want to congratulate you on putting together such a comprehensive and straightforward set of APIs. This is really excellent work, and it's a great way of making Census Bureau data more accessible.

However, in integrating with the Geocoding Services API, I seem to have noticed a bit of an issue: when looking up Geographies, the results are inconsistent. In particular, if I execute an identical... more »

Is there a proven formula to match up slightly different lat/lng values to a street address without submitting both of them to a Geocoding service (since we've already done so and don't want to make a second api call).

eg. The following coordinates are for the same street address (55 Church Street zip code 07505), but one set points to the building and the other to the street.

lat : 40.9170109 long: -74.1702248

lat:... more »