Thanks Sai, I'd like to get more information on the DataSan product,
is it production ready? I couldn't get much information from the
website as the link to the brochure seems to be broken. I'm looking at
alternatives for TotalCheck (to integrate into NetSuite) for one of my
clients.
Also, this
On 03/08/2011, at 11:40 AM, cij wrote:
@Niki, how did you find the speed of the Google Maps geocoder calls?
IME, it's fine, but don't make your users wait for it. Do it
asynchronously,
if only because you don't want to fail the transaction if Google is
slow or
says no.
Clifford Heath.
Hey mate,
If you are shipping in the US, and are using UPS, they have a free address
validation service -
https://www.ups.com/upsdeveloperkit/downloadresource?loc=en_US. It works in
other countries too, but I'm not sure of the accuracy (and UPS want you to use
their services, which might be a
You can try Google maps geocoding with this example.
http://xilinus.com/jquery-addresspicker/demos/index.html
On 3 August 2011 11:52, Clifford Heath clifford.he...@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/08/2011, at 11:40 AM, cij wrote:
@Niki, how did you find the speed of the Google Maps geocoder calls?
Hi CJ,
We provide AMAS PAF data as a RESTful web service which allows you to
integrate type as you go functionality quite quickly. Check out
http://www.datasan.com.au/
Regarding the comment about forcing users - yes I agree too. Plus even
AMAS data isn't up to date. So we provide advice/best
Hi cjs,
Forcing validation of addresses introduces friction for your users.
Unnecessary friction will result in lost sales.
It's certainly a waste of your resources to develop this before the
problem of fake/phantom addresses even exists for you. If it's an
assumption, you should have a really
To me it seems like you are overthinking it (however I don't know how
many orders you are going to get per day, how much the average order
is going to be, etc...).
From a security point of view these are the points you should be
concerned about:
1. Human hackers submitting malicious input trying
Google Maps have a free api that includes 2,500 geocoder calls a day:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/
Geocoding, although slightly different, also includes scrubbing and
cleaning address inputs.
On Jul 28, 9:06 pm, cij cjf...@gmail.com wrote:
hi folks,
ok, so my
Many thanks for all the suggestions. really appreciate it.
specifically, m starting with simple requirements i.e. looking for
list of street names, suburbs and postcodes. Not looking to validate
specific street addresses. geocoding requirements may come later.
@Rich, i also started going down
AusPost addresses are very accurate, updated quarterly and a solid solution
for existing businesses. I found that shopping around with Australia Post or
their many resellers will give you their current address database with
updates for not much less than $16k. The actual price depends on your
hi, just reaching out to the community for tips on how to quickly
source an australian national street address/suburb database for use
in a website startup. No luck yet going through aussie post and
sensis. Other suggestions welcome. Thanks!
Someone like this http://www.mapds.com.au/ can
Do you actually want to populate a database with each Australian
address? Or do you want to validate/sanitise data as it comes in?
I'm not aware of anywhere that just lists all addresses. Besides, I
reckon that list would be out of date before it's finished
downloading. It would be very expensive
Hi,
Another place to look. The states are slowly opening up address information
for free. Unfortunately, it's very fragmented. Each state is responsible for
the delivery method - if they open it at all. This means even if every state
opened up their info you would still have to piece it all
Hi,
This probably won't be that helpful since you mentioned the word quick but
you also mentioned startup. So I assume cheap is good too.
The states are slowly opening up address information for free.
Unfortunately, it's very fragmented. Each state is responsible for the
delivery method - if
Can I ask what you want to do with it?
On Jul 27, 12:06 pm, cij cjf...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, just reaching out to the community for tips on how to quickly
source an australian national street address/suburb database for use
in a website startup. No luck yet going through aussie post and
It depends on what data you want and what you want to do with it, but
openstreetmap may have what you need.
See here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Processing_the_File
for some ideas.
You can get Aus only subsets from
The most timely, and complete national coverage is from PSMA. You deal
with a reseller rather than them direct. Your options include
licensing the raw data and dealing with the rather complex data model
(call point spatial is one supplier I can vouch for) or you can deal
with a value added
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