You can misspell a substring of the street you are attempting to locate and the software will sequence through the nearest matches (in string edit distance). The edit distances have been weighted so that name prefix and suffix extension is light weight (an therefore a likely match). This makes it easy to omit street suffixes like "Avenue" and prefixes like "San," in fact all you really need to type is the most characteristic substring. Enter the misspelled substring after "Street Name:" and then punch "BestMatch" followed by as many "NextMatches" as are necessary to locate the right street. Once the street is located symbolically it can be located geographically by punching "ShowStreetOnMap." To locate an address on the street enter the number after "Address:" and then punch "ShowAddressOnStreet."

Street address locations are interpolated from data on the addresses at the ends of streets, so they are not always accurate, and in some industrial areas (where the Census Bureau has less interest) the address data is missing altogether. (For example, Coyote Hill, will match, but not 3333 Coyote Hill).

Each time you punch one to the show buttons the software will use the button that is inverted to the right of "Selection Centering on Map" to determine how to repaint the map. If "Always" is inverted the map will always move to center a request, if "Never" is inverted the request will blink if it is on the screen, otherwise is will be invisible. Finally "If Necessary" centers an item only if part of it is off the screen.