The article in question can be found at http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_1/tpj0401-0002.html (I had a hard time finding it via tpj.com, but Google worked.)
Unfortunately I think that the USPS site http://www.usps.com/cgi-bin/zip4/zip4inq needed to run this script is no more. A search there for zip4inq produced nothing. Does anyone know of a similar page, wither by the USPS or another provider of (web) services? Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steven Tolkin steve . tolkin at fmr dot com 617-563-0516 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V4D Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Orwant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 6:15 PM > To: Joel Gwynn > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Postal address De-duping > > > > On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Joel Gwynn wrote: > > > Hey, all. We do lots of (snail) mailings, and we're looking for a > > fast, > > customizable de-duping solution. We're currently taking a look at > > doubletake from http://peoplesmith.com/, which is not too > expensive, > > but > > I was thinking there might be some perl stuff out there, > given perl's > > text-processing powers. > > There's a wee script I wrote for TPJ a while back that > scrapes the U.S. > Postal Service's address canonicalizer. The script is on > tpj.com; look > under Archives for the article called "Five Quick Hacks". The > canonicalizer (well, they call it a "zip code locator" or something > like that) will transform variants on the same address into the One > True Address that the USPS recognizes, so de-duping then becomes a > matter of simple string matching. > > Won't help you for foreign addresses, obviously. > > -Jon > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
