Andrew McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem that is suspect isn't unusual and I'm looking to > see if there is any code available to help. I've Googled without success. > > Basically, I have two databases containing lists of postal addresses and > need to look for matching addresses in the two databases. More > precisely, for each address in database A I want to find a single > matching address in database B.
Have a look at http://febrl.sf.net It is a prototype probabilistic record linkage (fuzzy matching) engine, in Python, which includes, inter alia, a hidden Markov model address parser. It might be overkill or (at this stage of its development) too slow for your application. The next version (ina month or two) will include a geocoding engine which could also be used for what you want to do, I suspect. Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
