Methods for assigning geocodes to street addressable entities

A geocoding method comprising:

• obtaining a linearly ordered set of entity geocodes associated with a side of a street segment;
• obtaining a linearly ordered set of entity addresses associated with the side of the street segment;
• and
• associating the entity geocodes with the entity addresses by a linearly ordered matching, thereby geocoding the entity addresses;
• wherein obtaining the linearly ordered set of entity geocodes comprises:
• obtaining a set of entity geocodes associated with the side of the street segment, where each entity geocode potentially represents an addressable entity, and
• linearly ordering the received entity geocodes to produce the linearly ordered set of geocodes;
• wherein linearly ordering the received entity geocodes comprises calculating intersection points between the street segment and lines drawn perpendicular to said street segment to said entity geocodes.

A geocoding method comprising:

• obtaining a list of entity geocodes associated with a side of a street segment;
• ordinally numbering the list of entity geocodes with respect to position on the street segment;
• obtaining an ordered list of entity addresses associated with the side of the street segment;
• and
• associating the entity geocodes with the entity addresses by an ordinal matching, thereby geocoding the entity addresses;
• wherein associating the entity geocodes with the entity addresses comprises switching the addresses, as appropriate, between right and left sides of the segment.