Geocoding Made Easy Geospatial Solutions' product reviewer Grant Ian Thrall examines two recently released geocoding programs. Mar 1, 2006 By: Grant Ian Thrall

Community Coder 9.1 is the current rendition of the geocoder originally introduced by CACI.ESRI purchased CACI's Marketing Systems Group in January 2002, including its geocoding software and segmentation methodology. In 2003, ESRI's data development team created ESRI's segmentation system, Community Tapestry. Community Coder 9.1 is the first release of Community Coder to integrate with ArcGIS.

In the words of the famous Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." Sports fans do like a winner, but is success the most important factor in deciding a fan's favorite team? To analyze differences in the regional boundaries of the fan bases of professional teams, we examined geographic patterns associated with the fan bases of National Football League (NFL) teams in the United States.

Using data from a 2002 ESPN survey of 40,000 sports fans, a study examined the geographic patterns associated with Major League Baseball. In particular, it explored the spatial patterns of fan bases and created an index to measure the geographic and numeric strength of each team.