My company places GPS devices on our trucks.  Our drivers are making
stops not on our list.  The GPS provides the street address of this
unauthorized stops, but I need the names of the businesses if there is
one there.  Can I find it on the web?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 10 May 2005 13:19 PDT

Quite possibly.

Can you post the address here?

If not, the best we can do is offer general search options, which may
produce a successful "hit"...or may not.

Let us know.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by sobokiller-ga on 11 May 2005 06:49 PDT

The GPS states the driver stops at "1346 Seminole Trail Rd
Charlottesville VA 22901" or "198 Wood Duck Place Charlottesville VA
22902".  I need to know if that is a business, or possibly a
residence?

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 11 May 2005 09:18 PDT

Neither address shows up in any of the databases I consulted, and the
Seminole Trail address even shows up as an invalid address -- that is,
there is no such number on that particular street.

I'm not sure that GPS systems can actually translate coordinates into
precise street addresses -- they just take their "best guess", so to
speak.

Given that, is there something we can do to help you out at this point?

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by sobokiller-ga on 12 May 2005 10:17 PDT

Can a database of addresses and business pick the closest business to that address?

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Request for Question Clarification by markj-ga on 12 May 2005 11:43 PDT

sobokiller --

Seminole Trail (no "Road") is Route 29 in Charlottesville and is
clearly a business district at addresses close to the one you have
cited .  I haven't yet found 1324, but 1300 is a hotel and many other
businesses exist at nearby addresses.  See, for example, the search
results linked here:

 "seminole trail" charlottesville
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2005-14%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=+%22seminole+trail%22+charlottesville&btnG=Search

Is this enough information for you on Seminole Trail, or do you need
to get even closer to 1324?

markj-ga

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 12 May 2005 18:03 PDT

You can actually use Google to search for a range of addresses.

For instance, I searched for all addresses between 1340-1350 Seminole Trail here:


://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-04,GGLD:en&q=%221340%2E%2E1350+Seminole+Trail%22+Charlottesville+VA+22901


There appear to be two businesses at 1340 Seminole Trail Rd:


Continental Marketing 

and

National City Mortgage Co. (although this listing no longer appears to be current).



The closest I can get you on Wood Duck Place, as you can see from the link here:


://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD%2CGGLD%3A2005-04%2CGGLD%3Aen&q=%22115..300+Wood+Duck%22+Charlottesville+VA+22902


are non-business addresses at 115 and 119 Wood Duck Place.


Does that information meet your needs?


pafalafa-ga

I can only confirm Pafalafa?s comments.  198 Wood Duck Place does seem
to exist.  The street seems to be a dead end street going off Parham
Circle south of Interstate 64.  This company came up on Mapquest on
the street:
?  Sum Total Systems Inc:
434-296-1743
115 Wood Duck Pl, Charlottesville, VA 22902 US

198 is less than 0.1 miles SE.

1346 Seminole Trail Road mapquest seems to think is at the same point
as 1305 S T Road, which is a limited access, separated 4-lane highway.
 Mapquest lists a few hits within 0 distance at 1265 and 1245 S T Rd
and many more at 500 Westfield Rd that passes under it.

Here is the mapquest site showing these:

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=search&country=US&formtype=neighborhood&addtohistory=&location=tC1FqcxURE9Zdw0CRWT7Q%2bafE65KtejWDV5moTXF3FwduZ%2f420B8lr4SFL3AYCsOZ4rXbGYcoXi7C4G%2f800CV9tuXfusfBEmmdH91KuPBnw56CAP0aV%2fMWNIGM8%2b3LInVAFqwbMincg%3d

This is a census map site that allows you to enter GPS coordinates.
Whether that gets you closer, I can?t tell.

http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer?map.x=210&map.y=184&act=in&infact=2&outfact=2&off=CITIES&tlevel=-&tvar=-&tmeth=i&mlat=38.0707359&mlon=-78.4837646&msym=redpin&mlabel=Charlottesville__VA&murl=&lat=38.0706596&lon=-78.4839172&wid=0.007&ht=0.007&conf=mapnew.con

You will probably have to access the sites without the strings to where I was.
I think that there are more useful maps online that allow you to enter coordinates.
I hope this is of some assistance.