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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Google Map API v3 not accurately returning Japanese addresses

I have a site implementing "Google Map API v3" to create a map with pushpins of the yoga studios in our DB. Unfortunately, the locations are all in Japan. We have the addresses in English and Japanese, however, Google Maps is not so flexible with…
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Floor number with schema.org microdata?

Any idea how to markup a floor number with schema.org microdata for a local business' postal address?
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Solution to the poor free-text search of OpenStreetMap

I've done a web site for my city (Québec) using all the side-roads pannels to give a fast look at where it is or isn't possible to park (accross the road). The only problem is that we need to enter a very specific address format for it to find the…
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Predictive Street Address for iOS App?

I'm developing an iOS app and I want to be able to have a textfield for users to enter in an address and when you enter in a character for the street name, a pop up below the textfield will appear suggesting the street name. Does anyone know whether…
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where can i get a regex or a library package for recognizing street address, postal code, state, phone numbers, emails and etc?

i have bunch of unformatted docs.... i need regex to capture street address, postal code, state, phone numbers, emails, such common formats...
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GoogleMaps geocoder error: ZERO_RESULTS

This is my JS code to get lon and lat of an address. in 99% of the time it works OK.... but sometimes I get ZERO_RESULTS status... if (geocoder) { geocoder.geocode({'address': address, 'language':'it'}, function (results, status) { if…
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Physical Address to GeoLocation UK

Is there a good physical address to GeoLocation conversion database in the UK? I am trying to use this to build a globrix style search box http://www.globrix.com/ for a web application. Any pointers will be nice. I have been searching for hours. I…
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Get all information about a street in OpenStreetMap

I've been playing around with API, XAPI and Overpass of OSM. But I can not get some info a need: to get all information nodes of a street. Here a example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/5671291 This gives information of a way called "Watts…
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Best way to input mailing/property address?

I'm looking for thoughts on two different ways of entering a property address (i.e. the address of house or business, not an e-mail address) on a web site. What are the pros and cons of separate fields versus a single flexible multi-line entry…
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European Country/Region/Town data list

I want to have some combo boxes for selecting European regions and towns, where can I find some source data lists for it in English (but also with the local name if available)? For example: France/Brittany/Arzon
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Adding and Updating Postal Address through SyncAdapter

Till now I have followed the Sample Syncadapter example provided with the Android Sdk and able to add contact details like Phone Number and Name, but couldn't find any example on how to add and update a Postal Address through syncadapter. Please…
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What is the Royal Mail's PAF Address Database?

I'm struggling to understand what you would get from the Royal Mail if you bought their PAF file dataset of UK addresses. I was expecting that PAF was some form of database which you would host yourself, and the Royal Mail provide APIs into that…
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Zip code/addresses repository

Where can I find a zipcode/addresses or country repository ? I need it in order to make some comparisons with my existing data. Is there any free or do you have any opinion how to achieve that ? Please help me
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Searching locations in Solr

I have four pieces of data that I want to make searchable. Town, City, Postcode, Country What is the best way that I can make these results searchable by any of the following ways: London, England Swindon, Wiltshire, England Wiltshire,…
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Django: How to nicely format an address in a template without knowing how much information is available?

I have a table with address information. It has these fields. address_1 address_2 city state zip No field is required. I want to display this in a template and format it nicely. I want line breaks between address_1, address_2, and the…
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