Re: DB Design - Coding Standard for Roads for City Authority

In article <2vn1bs$1v8_at_hermes.is.co.za> gcross_at_apollo.is.co.za (City of Johannesburg - MSD) writes:
>From: gcross_at_apollo.is.co.za (City of Johannesburg - MSD)
>Subject: DB Design - Coding Standard for Roads for City Authority
>Date: 9 Jul 1994 20:29:48 GMT
>The kinds of problems the standard needs to address is, uniquely locating a
>motor vehicle accident when capturing it on the computer. A single Road
>can extend through multiple townships, and a Road may actually form a
>boundary between two townships and a Road with the same name can appear in
>another township.
>

Try using a map reference i.e degrees,minutes and seconds East/West and North/South. It's the only way to locate anything worlwide within a couple of metres or so.

hope this helps Received on Tue Jul 12 1994 - 17:46:11 CEST