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Ruiz-Rudolph, Pablo

Elisa Quinteros, Maria

Blazquez, Carola

Rosas, Felipe

Ayala, Salvador

Ossa Garcia, Ximena Marcela

Maria Delgado-Saborit, Juana

Harrison, Roy M.

Yohannessen, Karla

Quality of automatic geocoding tools: a study using addresses from hospital record files in Temuco, Chile

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Automatic geocoding methods have become popular in recent years, facilitating the study of the association between health outcomes and the place of living. however, rather few studies have evaluated geocoding quality, with most of them being performed in the US and Europe. This article aims to compare the quality of three automatic online geocoding tools against a reference method. A subsample of 300 handwritten addresses from hospital records was geocoded using Bing, Google Earth, and Google Maps. Match rates were higher (> 80%) for Google Maps and Google Earth compared with Bing. However, the accuracy of the addresses was better for Bing with a larger proportion (> 70%) of addresses with positional errors below 20m. Generally, performance did not vary for each method for different socioeconomic status. Overall, the methods showed an acceptable, but heterogeneous performance, which may be a warning against the use of automatic methods without assessing quality in other municipalities, particularly in Chile and Latin America.

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CONICYT [DPI20140093]; Research Councils UK; European Union [750531]; CONICYT Chile Beca Doctorado Nacional [21150801, 21191111]

CONICYT(Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica (CONICYT)); Research Councils UK(UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)); European Union(European Commission); CONICYT Chile Beca Doctorado Nacional

Impact of Wood Burning Air Pollution on Preeclampsia and other Pregnancy Outcomes in Temuco, Chile (DPI20140093) was granted by CONICYT and Research Councils UK. J. M. Delgado-Saborit is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement n. 750531. M. E. Quinteros and S. Ayala were supported by a doctoral scholarship by CONICYT Chile Beca Doctorado Nacional n. 21150801 and n. 21191111, respectively.

Impacto de la contaminación del aire por quema de leña en la preeclampsia y otros resultados del embarazo en Temuco, Chile (DPI20140093) fue otorgado por CONICYT y Research Councils UK. J. M. Delgado-Saborit cuenta con el apoyo del programa de investigación e innovación Horizonte 2020 de la Unión Europea en el marco del acuerdo de subvención Marie Sklodowska-Curie n. 750531. M. E. Quinteros y S. Ayala contaron con una beca doctoral de CONICYT Chile Beca Doctorado Nacional n. 21150801 y n. 21191111, respectivamente.

10.1590/0102-311X00288920

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Geographic Mapping Residence Characteristics

Spatial Analysis

POSITIONAL ACCURACY

EXPOSURE

Salud pública

ambiental y ocupacional

Características de residencia del mapeo geográfico

Análisis espacial

EXACTITUD POSICIONAL

EXPOSICIÓN

Geociencias

Ciencias de la Computación

Salud Pública y Ambiental

Quality of automatic geocoding tools: a study using addresses from hospital record files in Temuco, Chile

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CONICYT DPI20140093

UE 750531

CONICYT 21150801

CONICYT 21191111

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