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Re: st: Choosing the best set of longitude/latitude coordinates from three choices


From   Matthew Krauchunas <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Choosing the best set of longitude/latitude coordinates from three choices
Date   Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:25:03 -0400

Still messing around with this and I decided to take the absolute
value of the differences to make it easier.  Thus, the data now looks
like this:

oshpd_fac_no	oshpd_lat	oshpd_long	usc_lat	usc_long	intel_lat	intel_long	oshpd_usc_lat_diff	oshpd_usc_long_diff	oshpd_intel_lat_diff	oshpd_intel_long_diff	intel_usc_lat_diff	intel_usc_long_diff
206194113	34.22875	-118.3627	34.2298	-118.3629	34.2286	-118.3622	0.001053	0.000237	0.000145	0.000481	0.001198	0.000717
206194139	34.13254	-117.8698	34.13291	-117.8695	34.13241	-117.87	0.000370	0.000275	0.000130	0.000153	0.000500	0.000427
206194199	34.07075	-118.2026	34.07106	-118.2035	34.07067	-118.2026	0.000309	0.000870	0.000076	0.000015	0.000385	0.000854
206194202	34.69315	-118.157	34.69262	-118.1575	34.69285	-118.157	0.000534	0.000465	0.000298	0.000069	0.000237	0.000534
206194284	34.14379	-117.9671	34.14771	-117.9673	34.1431	-117.9675	0.003922	0.000198	0.000687	0.000435	0.004608	0.000237
206194320	34.03258	-118.3131	37.40501	-122.0915	37.40488	-122.0914	3.372433	3.778336	3.372299	3.778236	0.000134	0.000099
206194400	34.25798	-118.5727	34.25804	-118.5728	34.25835	-118.5725	0.000057	0.000031	0.000370	0.000252	0.000313	0.000282
206194558	34.28158	-118.4623	34.28167	-118.4608	34.28154	-118.4608	0.000095	0.001503	0.000042	0.001472	0.000137	0.000031
206194563	34.27824	-118.3992	34.28155	-118.4024	34.28153	-118.4026	0.003311	0.003250	0.003292	0.003410	0.000019	0.000160


On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Matthew Krauchunas
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The data management process for my dissertation is fraught with
> obstacles beyond my current Stata abilities, so I am returning to the
> "well" where everyone has been extremely helpful.
>
> I have some geocoded data from three sources and I need to figure out
> a way to choose the best set of coordinates.  The source of the
> coordinates are Intelligentsearch GIS (intel_lat & intel_long), USC
> GIS (usc_lat & usc_long), and OSHPD provided GIS (oshpd_lat &
> oshpd_long).  The OSHPD GIS also has 71 missing longitudes and
> latitudes.  I have calculated the difference between these three sets
> of coordinates:  Intelligentsearch & USC
> (intel_usc_lat_diff     intel_usc_long_diff), OSHPD & USC
> (oshpd_usc_lat_diff oshpd_usc_long_diff), and OSHPD &
> Intelligentsearch (oshpd_intel_lat_diff oshpd_intel_long_diff).  I
> need to keep the best coordinates (i.e., from two datasources with the
> smallest difference), name the new coordinates longitude and latitude,
> and use the USC coordinates as the default (i.e., use the USC
> coordinates when the smallest difference is between USC and
> Intelligentsearch).
>
> Let me provide an example:  oshpd_fac_no 206194320 has a
> oshpd_usc_lat_diff of -3.372433, oshpd_intel_lat_diff of -3.372299,
> and a intel_usc_lat_diff of 0.000134. Obviously the OSHPD gis is the
> problem and the USC latitude needs to be kept as it is my default.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas for this?
>
> Here is some sample data if it helps:
>
> oshpd_fac_no    intel_usc_lat_diff      intel_usc_long_diff     oshpd_usc_lat_diff      oshpd_usc_long_diff     oshpd_intel_lat_diff    oshpd_intel_long_diff   oshpd_long      oshpd_lat       usc_lat usc_long        intel_lat       intel_long
> 206271717       -2.928555       4.037598        2.928555        -4.037582       0.000000        0.000015        -121.9128       36.56206        33.63351        -117.8752       36.56206        -121.9128
> 206100833       -0.124664       0.399834        0.123066        -0.401627       -0.001598       -0.001793       -119.4988       37.10662        36.98355        -119.0972       37.10822        -119.497
> 206491017       -0.086819       0.052116        0.024086        -0.007385       -0.062733       0.044731        -122.4599       38.27798        38.25389        -122.4525       38.34071        -122.5046
> 206044001       -0.058876       -0.041939       0.058018        0.040482        -0.000858       -0.001457       -121.598        39.78528        39.72726        -121.6385       39.78614        -121.5965
> 206190123       -0.056854       -0.162796       0.054424        0.182648        -0.002430       0.019852        -118.2801       34.05378        33.99936        -118.4627       34.05621        -118.2999
> 206281040       -0.050270       -0.041695       0.000572        0.000282        -0.049698       -0.041412       -122.3058       38.31432        38.31374        -122.3061       38.36401        -122.2644
> 206040974       -0.039154       -0.023483       0.043438        0.026169        0.004284        0.002686        -121.6123       39.7707 39.72726        -121.6385       39.76641        -121.615
> 206070948       -0.038231       -0.044518       -0.001057       -0.000832       -0.039288       -0.045349       -122.132        37.88853        37.88959        -122.1312       37.92782        -122.0867
> 206374019       -0.036625       -0.008965       -0.001068       -0.000153       -0.037693       -0.009117       -116.984        32.83546        32.83652        -116.9839       32.87315        -116.9749
> 206301202       -0.033604       -0.016846       -0.000050       -0.001251       -0.033653       -0.018097       -117.836        33.74546        33.74551        -117.8347       33.77912        -117.8179
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