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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 to handle complex addresses with schema.org/PostalAddress?

Let's say I have an address which includes a parent building or other additional address info, for example: Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 E 17th St New York, NY 10003 OR Koi Restaurant Bryant Park Hotel 40 W 40th St New York, NY 10018 How should…
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Address formatting based on locale in android

Hi in my application i need to display the input address according to the locale set by the user. Has anyone worked or address formatting or has any pointers wrt it in Android platform.
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Picking the most accurate geocode

I'm using http://maps.google.com/maps/geo? web service to geocode some addresses. The problem I have is that a fuller address doesn't necessarily give a more accurate geocode. e.g passing in Llantysilio, Denbighshire, UK is far more accurate than…
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API for Address -> School District Lookup?

Is there a way to programmatically determine what School District a given physical street address in the US is tied to?
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Regex for splitting a german address into its parts

Good evening, I'm trying to splitting the parts of a german address string into its parts via Java. Does anyone know a regex or a library to do this? To split it like the following: Name der Straße 25a 88489 Teststadt to Name der…
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Address Match Key Algorithm

I have a list of addresses in two separate tables that are slightly off that I need to be able to match. For example, the same address can be entered in multiple ways: 110 Test St 110 Test St. 110 Test Street Although simple, you can imagine the…
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Google Chrome: Disable auto-completion menu for Manage Addresses

As of Dec 9, 2019, with Chrome v78.x I've been experiencing serious problems with disabling auto-completion menus in some places of my web front-end application. Especially on the Chrome browser, even after I applied autocomplete="off" to text…
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Generating test data - how to generate a valid address for a given US zipcode?

I am creating a tool which depends on addresses. For the purposes of testing, I'd like to create a large number of valid US addresses. I have the GeoNames postal code data and I would like to generate some number of real addresses for each of the…
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How to find distance between two addresses? (Java server side)

I have a "social" geographic aware application I'm developing, and the million dollar question is how do I list a set of items that are "within X miles" of "my location" since there are million applications that do that, I was surprised to find that…
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What is the best way to deal with address inputs that can be from multiple countries?

Most of my websites in the past have been rather limited to the United States when it came to displaying addresses. On a project I'm working on right now, however, users can add events from all over the world. My problem is how to go about dealing…
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Is there pseudocode for UK address or phone number validation?

Do you have pseudocode for field validation of the following items in the UK? I am from the USA, so I only know the ones in the USA right now. Address Line 1 Phone Number Mobile Number (in case they have a special rule for this, which they might…
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International Phone and Address Data?

I guess this is a multi-part question. I am building a membership site and want to have the accounts as international as possible. What is the best way to collect phone numbers on a form that allows for international numbers? I'm not worried…
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Java Compare Addresses

Does anyone know a library to compare addresses in Java ? Something that would give equality on addresses, written in different ways. For example, it should recognize that "22 Acacia Avenue" and "22 acacia av." is the same address. Of course, this…
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PHP regexp US address

I'm trying to see what would be a good way to validate a US address, I know that there might be not a proper way of doing this, but I'm going for the basic way: #, Street name, City, State, and Zip Code. Any ideas will be appreciate it. Thanks
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Formatting a Shipping Address by Country in PHP (or Perl)

I have an HTML form that takes an input shipping address in parts (street address, city, state/province, postal code, and country). This form is then processed with PHP. I'd like to convert this address into the correct format for the destination…
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