2021
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi10050335
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Geocoding Freeform Placenames: An Example of Deciphering the Czech National Immigration Database

Abstract: The growth of international migration and its societal and political impacts bring a greater need for accurate data to measure, understand and control migration flows. However, in the Czech immigration database, the birthplaces of immigrants are only kept in freeform text fields, a substantial obstacle to their further processing due to numerous errors in transcription and spelling. This study overcomes this obstacle by deploying a custom geocoding engine based on GeoNames, tailored transcription rules and fuz… Show more

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