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Slot: Propagated Geocoding Precision (geocoding_precision_propagated)

Quality category propagated from the upstream geocoder (DeGAUSS precision column).

Tier: recommended

Why this slot matters

Geocoding precision determines whether "residence" means the actual house or a ZIP-code centroid kilometres away — which changes which grid cell the patient falls in and therefore their assigned exposure. Propagating it lets analysts filter or down-weight coarsely located records.

In plain terms

Geocoding means turning a street address into map coordinates, and it does not always land on the exact house — sometimes only on the street, the ZIP area, or the city. This records how exact the landing was.

URI: envar:slot/geocoding_precision_propagated

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
LinkageMethod How a gridded environmental value gets attached to a patient: the resolution ... no

Properties

Type and Range

Property Value
Range GeocodingPrecisionEnum
Domain Of LinkageMethod

Cardinality and Requirements

Property Value

Examples

Value
range

See Also

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property value
tier recommended
justification Geocoding precision determines whether "residence" means the actual house or a ZIP-code centroid kilometres away — which changes which grid cell the patient falls in and therefore their assigned exposure. Propagating it lets analysts filter or down-weight coarsely located records.
explanation Geocoding means turning a street address into map coordinates, and it does not always land on the exact house — sometimes only on the street, the ZIP area, or the city. This records how exact the landing was.
covered_by None

Schema Source

Mappings

Mapping Type Mapped Value
self envar:geocoding_precision_propagated
native envar:geocoding_precision_propagated

LinkML Source

name: geocoding_precision_propagated
annotations:
  tier:
    tag: tier
    value: recommended
  justification:
    tag: justification
    value: Geocoding precision determines whether "residence" means the actual house
      or a ZIP-code centroid kilometres away — which changes which grid cell the patient
      falls in and therefore their assigned exposure. Propagating it lets analysts
      filter or down-weight coarsely located records.
  explanation:
    tag: explanation
    value: Geocoding means turning a street address into map coordinates, and it does
      not always land on the exact house — sometimes only on the street, the ZIP area,
      or the city. This records how exact the landing was.
  covered_by:
    tag: covered_by
    annotations:
      omop_gaia:
        tag: omop_gaia
        annotations:
          extent:
            tag: extent
            value: absent
          status:
            tag: status
            value: asserted
          where:
            tag: where
            value: no column
          note:
            tag: note
            value: No geocoding-precision column on location.csv or external_exposure.csv.
      degauss:
        tag: degauss
        annotations:
          extent:
            tag: extent
            value: full
          status:
            tag: status
            value: verified
          where:
            tag: where
            value: geocoder + daymet CSV `precision` column (range/street/zip/etc.)
          evidence:
            tag: evidence
            value: EnVar/examples/heat/COMPARISON.md §B (Geocoding precision — ✅ for
              DeGAUSS)
          note:
            tag: note
            value: DeGAUSS carries the geocoding precision category first-class in
              the `precision` column — the motivating source for this slot.
      amadeus:
        tag: amadeus
        annotations:
          extent:
            tag: extent
            value: absent
          status:
            tag: status
            value: asserted
          where:
            tag: where
            value: no column
          note:
            tag: note
            value: Amadeus collapses the address to lat/lon at the THREDDS request
              and carries no geocoding precision.
      cher:
        tag: cher
        annotations:
          extent:
            tag: extent
            value: absent
          status:
            tag: status
            value: asserted
          where:
            tag: where
            value: no column
          note:
            tag: note
            value: C-HER geocodes participants to points but does not carry the precision
              of the geocode.
      codata:
        tag: codata
        annotations:
          extent:
            tag: extent
            value: out_of_layer
          status:
            tag: status
            value: asserted
          where:
            tag: where
            value: no column
          note:
            tag: note
            value: Propagated geocoder precision is an instance-layer linkage quality
              signal, outside CODATA's conceptual scope.
description: Quality category propagated from the upstream geocoder (DeGAUSS `precision`
  column).
title: Propagated Geocoding Precision
examples:
- value: range
  description: street-centerline point interpolated within an address-range segment
from_schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/microschemas/envar
see_also:
- https://degauss.org/
rank: 1000
domain_of:
- LinkageMethod
range: GeocodingPrecisionEnum