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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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How can I extract address from raw text using NLTK in python?

I have this text '''Hi, Mr. Sam D. Richards lives here, 44 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 12345. Can you contact him now? If you need any help, call me on 12345678''' . How the address part can be extracted from the above text using NLTK? I…
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Open maps with specific address iOS 7

I am trying to make my application open the apple maps application and have the address be pulled up. I tried this : - (IBAction)openInMaps:(id)sender { NSString *addressString = @"http://maps.apple.com/?q=1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA"; …
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Building a Contact Database - Need a little schema inspiration

I've been working on laying out the data structure for an application I'm working on. One of the things it will need to handle is storing customer / contact information. I've been studying the interface of a few different contact information…
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How to check if an address is a business or residential address

I have a dataset that contains many addresses (60,000-ish entries). I want to classify these addresses into either residential or business addresses. Does anyone know a good API/Service to get started doing this? I don't think the google maps…
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How many address fields would you use for a UK database?

Address records are probably used in most database, but I've seen a number of slightly different sets of fields used to store them. The number of fields seems to vary from 3-7, and sometimes all fields are simple labelled address1..addressN, other…
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localising postal / physical address display from database fields

Can anyone point me to a list of international postal / residential / delivery address format templates that use some kind of parseable standard vocabulary for address parts? The ideal list contains a country code then a format using replaceable…
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Adding google maps markers by an address instead of coordinates?

In my Flex project, can I add markers by its address instead of this: var myGeographicCoordinates:LatLng = new LatLng(myLatitude, myLongitude); for example add marker by "Paris, France"
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General Address Parser for Freeform Text

We have a program that displays map data (think Google Maps, but with much more interactivity and custom layers for our clients). We allow navigation via a set of combo boxes that prefill certain fields with a bunch of data (ie: Country: Canada, the…
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Open Source Address Scrubber?

I have set of names and addresses that have been entered into and excel spreadsheet, but the problem is that the many people that entered the addresses entered them in many different non-standard formats. I want to scrub the addresses before…
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Guide to international postal address formats

Where can I find a guide to different postal address formats that are used in the major countries in the world? For example, in the U.S. one format is: street_number street_name street_type city, state zipcode But in Germany it might…
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Google Autocomplete with Apartment Number

When a user adds an apartment number to their address, the autocomplete seems to think it's looking at a zipcode, and changes the suggested matches: 6250 Hollywood Boulevard #20 Is there a way to get this to work, or if not, a way to ignore the…
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Is there a way to find the nearest cross streets for an address?

Using the google maps API is there a way to programmatically find the nearest cross streets, given a particular street address?
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Is there a Java parser that can parse addresses like this

I'm using Java 6. I'm looking for an automated way to parse addresses. I'm not concerned if the addresses exist or not. The best thing I have found is JGeocoder (v 0.4.1), but JGeocoder is unable to parse addresses like this 16th Street Theater,…
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is there a free service which auto-completes post-addresses (streetnames) for all countries all over the world?

is there a free service which auto-completes post-addresses (streetnames) for all countries all over the world? i am thinking about a service like yql from yahoo, or something like foresquare. i want to let a user enter a streetname and while he is…
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What does each Android's location.Address method return?

I am trying to figure out exactly how to get address component with the Android SDK with the class android.location.Address. Some of the methods are very straightforward, other are easily understood with the examples in the documentation, but some…
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