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Environmental Health BioMedCentral Research Open Access Quantifying geocode location error using GIS methods Matthew J Strickland*?1,2, Csaba Siffel?1,3, Bennett R Gardner?1, Alissa K Berzen?4 and Adolfo Correa?1 Address: 1National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 3Computer Sciences Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA and 4Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Email: Matthew J Strickland* - MStrickland@; Csaba Siffel - CSiffel@; Bennett R Gardner - BRGardner@; Alissa K Berzen - ABerzen@; Adolfo Correa - ACorrea@ * Corresponding author ?Equal contributors Published: 4 April 2007 Received: 17 May 2006 Accepted: 4 April 2007 Environmental Health 2007, 6:10 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-6-10 This article is available from: /content/6/1/10 ? 2007 Strickland et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program (MACDP) collects maternal address information at the time of delivery for infants and fetuses with birth defects. These addresses have been geocoded by two independent agencies: (1) the Georgia Division of Public Health Office of Health Information and Policy (OHIP) and (2) a commercial vendor. Geographic information system (GIS) methods were used to quantify uncertainty in the two sets of geocodes using orthoimagery and tax parcel datasets. Methods: We sampled 599 infants and fetuses with birth defects delivered during 1994–2002 with maternal residence in either Fulton or Gwinnett Coun