Needs: Geocoder
Process
The product design team conducted several focus groups
with users of other Nearby products to arrive at
this needs statement.
System Needs The system needs to:
The Geocoder application needs to be able to:
S-1
Convert street addresses into longitude/latitude pairs.
User Needs Users of the system need to be able to:
A user of the application needs to be able to:
U-1
Run the application from the command line.
U-2
Specify the geographic area of interest when the application
is run.
U-3
Enter one or more addresses to convert.
U-4
View the longitude/latitude pair(s) for an address after it is entered.
U-5
When there is more than one one longitude/latitude pair for an
address, view the longitude/latitude pairs sorted (in ascending order)
by segment ID.
(Note that, because street names are not unique, there may be more
than one longitude/latitude pair for a single address.)
