Questions tagged [street-address]

Street address refers to postal addresses, or delivery points, that can be used for physical delivery of mail or goods.

Street address refers to postal addresses, or delivery points, that can be used for physical delivery of mail or goods. Data quality is a big issue surrounding street addresses, because they are not simple strings or numbers such as an email address or phone number. Therefore capturing, storing, de-duplicating and verifying street addresses all pose challenges.

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Deploy jpostal/libpostal into EC2 instances

I am trying to deploy jpostal artifacts into an EC2 instances so that our web application can use the library. As I understand, jni files in "scr/main/jniLibs" are linking to c libraries in "/usr/local/include/libpostal" and "/usr/local/lib/".…
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Street Address search in a string - Python or Ruby

Hey, I was wondering how I can find a Street Address in a string in Python/Ruby? Perhaps by a regex? Also, it's gonna be in the following format (US) 420 Fanboy Lane, Cupertino CA Thanks!
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Python to transform street type abbreviation?

I am dealing with addresses matching such as 123 Main St. Suite 100 Chicago, IL and 123 Main Street Chicago, IL. One important problem is to transform abbreviations of street type, such as St. to Street. I wonder if there is any Python package that…
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Extract Address Information from a Web Page

I need to take a web page and extract the address information from the page. Some are easier than others. I'm looking for a firefox plugin, windows app, or VB.NET code that will help me get this done. Ideally I would like to have a web page on our…
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Use regex and python to move city in address block, add ampersand

I have spreadsheets with poorly-formed addresses in them, and I need them to be reasonably good to use for geocoding. I've tried some of the Python libraries for parsing addresses, but they aren't able to figure out some of them. As an example, "N…
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How can I use Google's Geocoding to normalize addresses without violating the terms of service?

I'm working on a API that will accept addresses in searches. We would like to use Google's geocoding service to normalize the addresses before submitting the search criteria to our search engine. This caught my…
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How to check an input string contains street address or not?

We want to identify the address fields from a document. For Identifying the address fields we converted the document to OCR files using Tesseract. From the tesseract output we want to check a string contains the address field or not . Which is the…
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Splitting address, city, state, and zip, lacking delimiters, in excel

I have an excel spreadsheet that contains entire addresses packed in a single cell without delimiters. The addresses look like this: 2701 NW 64TH TER MARGATE FL 33063-1703 901 NE 8 ST HALLANDALE BEACH FL 33009-2626 1840 DEWEY ST UNIT 305 HOLLYWOOD…
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mail address validation in python/django

We are developing our website in django framework and with python. currently we are looking for an api/a tool to validate the physical addres the user enters. It doesn't need to be vey sophisticated. We just need to avoid spam registrations. For…
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Is it possible to retrieve a list of all addresses within a certain region in Google Maps API?

Say I want to retrieve a list of all addresses of Rome. How do I achieve this programmatically in Google Maps API, or any other web service? I don't want the actual location of the addresses, just a list of the names of the addresses.
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Extract address/contact details from a text block with name and address?

I have a block of text that includes name, maybe company name, and address, and maybe email address. I want to extract the street address out of that, and preferably name and address. This data is siphoned from multiple sources, so I have no idea…
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API - List all addresses in given zip code

Does anyone know of an API out there that will return all addresses for a given zip code? I'm aware of zipinfo's product, but that's a physical list that would exist on my server and I was hoping for an API.
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Extract House Number from (address) string using r

I want to parse apart (extract) addresses into HouseNumber and Streetname. I should later be able to write the extracted "values" into new columns (shops$HouseNumber and shops$Streetname). So lets say I have a data frame called "shops": > shops …
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How to determine the country from a free text address?

We've got a legacy custom address control. It provides a free text form into which users can enter any address, even a partial or invalid address; see green arrow in the screenshot: Entering an address in this free text form is to provide better…
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efficient way to store user address details rails 4

does anyone have a good resource for an effective way to store user address details so they can be accessed by multiple models? I found the below article, but its old and may be out of date for rails 4.…
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