Re: Street address normalisation

2007-11-29 Thread jim
There are some commercial address standardization software such as: http://www.semaphorecorp.com/zp4/ (i do not work for this company :) but have used their software) jim On Nov 29, 7:31 am, Corey Oordt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ported part of the Geo Street Address from the perl module:

Re: Street address normalisation

2007-11-29 Thread Corey Oordt
I ported part of the Geo Street Address from the perl module: address_regex.py from geocode.address_dicts import * STREET_TYPE_REGEX = "|".join(STREET_TYPES.keys()) + "|" + "|".join(STREET_TYPES.values()) STATE_REGEX = "|".join(STATE_CODES.values()) DIRECTIONS_REGEX = "|".join(DIRECTI

Re: Street address normalisation

2007-11-20 Thread Don Arbow
On Nov 20, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Jeremy Dunck wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2007 3:26 PM, hajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks a lot; will defintely look into this one! >> The other solution I looked at was to send an address to google (We >> have a commercial deal with them; I work for a failry large

Re: Street address normalisation

2007-11-20 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On Nov 20, 2007 3:26 PM, hajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks a lot; will defintely look into this one! > The other solution I looked at was to send an address to google (We > have a commercial deal with them; I work for a failry large > newspaper); get it geocoded and then go from there...

Re: Street address normalisation

2007-11-20 Thread hajo
Thanks a lot; will defintely look into this one! The other solution I looked at was to send an address to google (We have a commercial deal with them; I work for a failry large newspaper); get it geocoded and then go from there... The issue here is one of time... Hajo On Nov 20, 12:38 pm, Tim Ch

Re: Street address normalisation

2007-11-20 Thread Tim Chase
> I have an issue with users doing a lookup on street address. [snip] > This seems like asuch a common problem; are there any > libraries for this; what is the "correct" way to handle this? > How do google; Mapquest and Yahoo do this? (I don't have quite > their resources; but it would point me in

Street address normalisation

2007-11-20 Thread hajo
I have an issue with users doing a lookup on street address. the issue is the following: If the address the user wants is 123A mockingird st. It'll mess up on street; str. etc... My solution was to only look at the first "word" in the search box; So if you have a mockingbird Lane and a mockingb