Below is my experiment in automatic geocoding. I extracted the business information from the 1860 editon of Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown Directory (available here: https://archive.org/details/boydswashingtong1860wash/) and used a batch geocoder to identify locations. Most of the entries were located successfully, though I had to correct some of the geographical coordinates for archaic address, such as nearly anything located along Water Street, which was later renamed Lee Street, in Alexandria. Though all of the 4,000+ locations in the Washington area were geocoded, the embedded dashboard only displays businesses listed in Alexandria.
