The PE Calendar uses a geocoder service from Yahoo! to double-check the addresses and Zip Codes you enter. 99% of the time, it works fabulously, and prevents numerous errors from being made. Occasionally, however, it can be tempermental. When it is, try the following:

1. Enter your address without the Zip Code, and then use the 5-digit Zip Code that shows up in the error message.
2. Use our raw geocoding test utility to check out how the address wishes to be represented.  It's at http://wow.uscgaux.info/geotest.php.  Simply type in your address freeform, with commas, and leave out the Zip Code (it will be provided).  The address that you get is the one that will work in the PE calendar.
3. Check with the U.S. Postal Service here. Enter your address without a Zip Code to start.  If the USPS reports "The address you provided is not recognized by the US Postal Service as an address we serve", then you have the address wrong, whatever you think.  See "Common Errors", next section.

Common Errors
Here are the most common address errors made during address data, in decreasing order of frequency:

1. You are putting an address (e.g., 1234 Main St.) in the "Location" field. The location field, required, is the name of the building or meeting place, such as "Fire Station Room 235". It may not be a street address. The field immediately below "Location" is called "Address", and it is called that for a reason. That is where you put the first line of the street address.
2. You are attempting to enter a Location in the Address field (opposite of #1).
3. You are omitting North, South, East, or West (or N, S, E, or W) from a street address.  Even though you've lived there for over 40 years and think of City Hall as 100 Main Street, the Post Office (and our geocoder) insist you enter it "100 N. Main St." if that is the legal address.
4. You are attempting to enter a street address on a military base using the city that the base is in. For example, you enter "Location" as "Travis AFB Youth Center" and the full address as "310 Fairchild Drive, Fairfield, CA 94535". This will fail; the use of the city "Fairfield" in which Travis AFB is located is incorrect. Instead, for "City", you must enter either "Travis AFB", or "Travis Air Force Base". This is consistent across the country; the "city" for any military base is the name of the base itself.

Maps in the Flyer
The marker showing the course location in the PE flyer is also from Yahoo's geocoding service.  It, however, takes the latitude and longitude provided based upon the address, and then tells Google Maps (which actually renders the map insert on the flyer) where to place the marker.  For some reason, Yahoo's geocoding of addreesses to lat/lon is sometimes a little off.

We are working on switching the map marker over to Google's geocoder, but due to higher-priority projects, that might not get done as soon as you would like.