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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nominatim with Openlayers

I have a simple code to display a map of Openstreetmaps via Openlayers based on latitude/longitude: map = new OpenLayers.Map('#map'); var mapnik = new OpenLayers.Layer.OSM(); var fromProjection = new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"); //…
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Google map search interfering with mySQL

I'm having an issue displaying markers from my database while allowing the user to search their address (search is an autocomplete). I can either display the markers or complete a search, however I'd like to do both. From all the testing I've done,…
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Against Match failing on multiple address fields, I can't work it out

I have a table structured as follows: address_number address_street address_town address_county address_postcode There is a search box on the site where people can enter a partial address and I need to work out how to return accurate results…
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Mailchimp API merge_var address...how do I create a city list?

first I must say I'm a noob at MailChimp all round. I have looked at their documentation and wasn't able to understand enough to get my answer from that. I know, I'm a noob, but I'm also a noob that has done enough research to only be asking this as…
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Is there a Software package or API available for street address completion?

Does anyone know of a service (free or paid) or software that I can host for street address completion? I'm interested in providing a list of possible completions for an address string, not geocoding an address. For example, if a user types "120…
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Rails, sending mail to an address with accented characters

I am sending emails via Rails, ActionMailer, 1.9 Ruby and rails 3.0 All is good, I am sending emails with accented characters in subject lines and body, without issue. My charset default is UTF-8. However when I try to send an email to an address…
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How Bad is this Database for Address?

I'm still a novice to databases, normalization, etc, and I might need some help. Enclosed here is a portion of my database structure, and I'm thinking that my approach is a bad idea. Here, our country can be classified into different provinces, and…
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UPS Address validation using only Zipcode

I am using UPS API for address validation. I am very new to this API and have just started learning. I want to validate an address based on only zipcode i.e. I don't want to suppy the State name. It is not working in Test Integration environment.…
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Regex with a large amount of "or's"

Writing some regex to help process street addresses. However, I'm unsure if regex is the correct way to go about solving this problem. I have a street address that looks like this: 7829 Hollywood Ave I would like to write a regex that says this…
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Translate US street & secondary abbreviations into full length version

Here is the list; I'm doing this to "normalize" a data set of addresses for easier look-ups. I've tried using strtr() and str_ireplace() but it doesn't work out well. Here is a shorter set of the list for testing.
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Adhoc Data processing / ETL

I've just started at a new company in outsourced communications (e.g. print and mail, email, fax). One of the requirements is to process clients data and get it ready for mailing. For recurring jobs, this is easy using an ETL tool linked in with…
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RegEx do not match group with following \.\d

I try to find addresses in different texts. It works quite well except that it also matches a word followed by a date (foobar 22.01.2012 => address: foobar 22) So I would like to improve the regex in a way that a streetnumber MUST NOT be followed by…
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Matching Conditions in Regex

Just a note upfront: I'm a bit of a regex newbie. Perhaps a good answer to this question would involve linking me to a resource that explains how these sorts of conditions work :) Lets say that I have a street name, like 23rd St or 5th St. I'd like…
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How to convert gps coordinates to address?

Possible Duplicate: Reverse Geocoding With Google Map API And PHP To Get Nearest Location Using Lat,Long coordinates How to convert gps coordinates ( latitude&longitude ) to address on Android or Php ? My program should get address from given…
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Format address search with regular expression

I have an application that searches a database of addresses. The page visitor enters his or hers address and the app will tell them whether they're connected. The relevant parts of the database that contains the information they should search…
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