Re: Dealer List

Posted by BigKev On 2009/12/1 12:36:19

Thanks for the offers for help. Two more evenings and I should have it all typed in. I am already about 1/3 of the way through it. Plus where possible I am merging the information with the current entires. So far the Master Excel list is at almost 800 dealers. But I still need to weed it and remove any duplicates.

I did find it interesting that the most common address for a Packard dealer is on "Main St.". I would say that 1/3 of the dealers in the list are located on a "Main St.", followed by a "Broad St." address.

I did some preliminary GEO-Encoding on the addresses last night and the google map it draws is pretty interesting. Some addresses are no longer found due to street and numbering changes over the years. But still plots the city it is located in. I have most of the New England dealers added and the dealer clustering is pretty impressive.

Also if anyone has access to the the Packard Directories for other years then I would like to get a scanned copies of those if possible to round out the database.

Thanks!