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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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Is an autocomplete text box for entering addresses a good idea?

Entering my address via a traditional form drives me crazy: Why do I have to enter my city, state, and zip code when my city and state can be inferred from my zip code? Choosing your state from a dropdown list is a pain in the ass -- often you…
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Java postal address parser

Somewhat related to this question, but in the absence of any answer about QuickBooks specifically, does anyone know of an address parser for Java? Something that can take unstructured address information and parse out the address line 1, 2 and city…
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Validating address input in Android

In my app, I have to take in a user address (US). The user needs to type in a valid address. How can I achieve this? Is there any library which can help me with the names of states, cities and street names? I would like to use autotype if possible.…
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Address Splitting with NLP

I am working currently on a project that should identify each part of an address, for example from "str. Jack London 121, Corvallis, ARAD, ap. 1603, 973130 " the output should be like this: street name: Jack London; no: 121; city: Corvallis;…
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Extract Address from String - Equivalent to NSDataDetector in iOS

In iOS there's a class named NSDataDetector that, for example, let's you pass a text and it will detect if that text contains things like postal addresses, dates, links... In my case, I'm interested in finding a similar tool for Android that let…
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Characters and symbols allowed in shipping and billing address?

What characters and symbols are allowed in shipping, billing, physical address? First/Last name: Letters, space Address: Letters, numbers, space and # ' . , - / City: Letters, space and - Postal: Numbers, letters, space and -
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Retrieving a fully qualified street address from ZIP / postal code

I have a form in which my users need to enter the following location data: Full address line (street address, apartment, suite, unit, building, floor) House number City State / province / region ZIP / Postal code Country To simplify the completion…
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Compare 5000 strings with PHP Levenshtein

I have 5000, sometimes more, street address strings in an array. I'd like to compare them all with levenshtein to find similar matches. How can I do this without looping through all 5000 and comparing them directly with every other 4999? Edit: I am…
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Making sense of Google Geocoding API results

I'm using Google's Geocoding API to process free-form address data and am trying to make sense of the results (subpremise, administrative_area_level_2, etc.). At this point I'm only interested in addresses in the US, and would like to format the…
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Android - Getting Contact List with street addresses but no low value ones like Skype where the address is only a city and state

I got a cursor retrieving all the contacts on the app that have a street address. This cursor is then passed into an Adapter. So far so good. Except I also get a bunch of low value contacts (mostly from Skype) that only have a State/Country info. Is…
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Using natural language processing to extract an address from a tweet

I'm building a twitter bot that will listen for tweets like the following: Hey @twitterbot, I'm looking for restaurants around 123 Main Street, New York or, another example: @twitterbot, what's near Yonge & Dundas, Toronto? I'm hungry! It'll then…
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algorithm for checking addresses for matches?

I'm working on a survey program where people will be given promotional considerations the first time they fill out a survey. In a lot of scenarios, the only way we can stop people from cheating the system and getting a promotion they don't deserve…
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Do you break up addresses into street / city / state / zip?

My current app needs to store address information for a user. I'm currently debating whether to use the customary street address / city / state / zip textboxes and dropdowns or to go with Google's method of simply having everything on one line. …
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What punctuation characters are necessary for a city field?

I'm considering a regex to restrict punctuation in city names (worldwide). What would be a fairly inclusive whitelist of these? I'm thinking: (space) . period - hyphen ' apostrophe Also thinking maybe comma or slash but I don't have any examples.…
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get 9 digit zip code from 5 digit zip code, programmatic, api

I have 5 digit zip codes, these are retrieved from Google Maps Api. My dilemma is that I have to connect to a remote database which also contains addresses. If the address does not exist in that database, I have to write it, if it does exist then I…
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