The Illinois GIS Initiative

The NAACCR GIS Committee is extremely pleased to announce the publication of an authoritative and comprehensive new book entitled ‘A Geocoding Best Practices Guide’ authored by Daniel W. Goldberg from the University of Southern California (USC) GIS Research Laboratory. This document was developed with guidance from the NAACCR GIS Committee . The book provides a guide to cancer registries for understanding, utilizing, standardizing, and improving the geocoding processes.  The reader is guided through each technical step of the geocoding process, the sources of error inherent to geocoding, as well as the repercussions errors may have on subsequent research.  More than 60 geocoding best practices are presented throughout the book. While ‘A Geocoding Best Practices Guide’ was written specifically for cancer registries it will serve as a rich reference manual for anyone who wants to inject more science and less art (uncertainty) into their geocoding tasks.

Please visit the NAACCR web site at www.naaccr.org for more information.  You may also conveniently view and download the publication by clicking here .