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I am a programmer and to be honest don't know street address structures of the world, just how in my country is structured :) so which is the best and common database design for storing street addresses? It should be so simple to use, fast to query and...
Started by ArsenMkrt on
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I once had a project to put all the Secondary with address and....
On how much free-formed-ness you're willing to accept either simple STREET ADDRESS LINE s or per the closest you can get to a street address is the city.
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I'm impressed with the simplicity of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Street Address search service.
My requirement is to type rough address info with no comma separators into a simple text box, press a find button, wait a few seconds and then observe a result...
Started by Gary Russo on
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There is a bit of information in these related questions:
How do you perform address.
Validation? How to obtain longitude and latitude for a street address programmatically (and legallyYes.
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We have a column for street addresses:
123 Maple Rd.
321 1st Ave.
etc...
Is there any way to match these addresses to a given input? The input would be a street address, but it might not be in the same format. For example:
123 Maple Road
321 1st Avenue...
Started by metanaito on
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For example, which of these match and which don't:
123 Maple Street 123 Maple St 123 maple street....
Fuzzy Lookups and Groupings Provide Powerful Data Cleansing Capabilities differing addresses.
With 'street' before comparing.
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My current app needs to store address information for a user. I'm currently debating whether to use the customary street address / city / state / zip textboxes and dropdowns or to go with Google's method of simply having everything on one line. Any thoughts...
Started by Kevin Pang on
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To enter the address as a single line, and then do a best-effort parsing of the information section of the address and you can limit the addresses you want to handle by knowing the formatting field where users enter their address....
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I've seen that it's possible to get the latitude and longitude (geocoding, like in Google Maps API ) from a street address, but is it possible to do the reverse and get the street address when you know what the lat/long already is?
The application would...
Started by Chris Wenham on
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Google again
http://nicogoeminne.googlepages.com/documentation.html
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-non-google-geocoders
This is called "reverse geocoding", and there do exist web services that will provide this functionality... .
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Currently we store our address data like so:
string suiteNumber (ie. unit number) string streetNumber (building number) string streetName string streetDirection (N/NW/S/etc.) string streetType (rd/st/ave/etc.) // ... etc. (postal code/city/province/state...
Started by SnOrfus on
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In Europe, the street address is usually a name plus a "number" (where number can had an address ....
In lieu of a street address, I might recommend designing something that would allow this information, Wolf Lake etc.
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Hey, folks. I'm looking for some regular expressions to help grab street addresses and phone numbers from free-form text (a la Gmail).
Given some text: "John, I went to the store today, and it was awesome! Did you hear that they moved to 500 Green St....
Started by spitzanator on
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It touches both phone numbers and street addresses have a list of all country codes and number formats is easy, street addresses I have no idea, the only.
Take a look at Chapter 7 of Dive Into Python .
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Supposedly, it is possible to get this from Google Maps or some such service. (US addresses only is not good enough.)
Started by Ola Eldøy on
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Each segment will have a start address and end address, and you interpolate along....
You look up the street you're interested in, which will have several segments.
On a service, then you download the TIGER Shapefiles from the US Census .
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Problem: I have an address field from an Access database which has been converted to Sql Server 2005. This field has everything all in one field. I need to parse out the individual sections of the address into their appropriate fields in a normalized ...
Started by Rob Allen on
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The second line will generally, and then street ....
The street address will generally be one or two lines.
Street1 from street2 from city from state from zip? Are address types (road, street, boulevard, etc detector.
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Los Angeles is pretty big and on my commute I regularly drive through neighborhoods with 5-digit street addresses. It got me wondering ... what's the highest legitimate street address in the world?
(By "legitimate" I mean "part of a normal sequence of...
Started by The Hamster King on
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That continues to Rainy River.)
Edit: the highest address appears to be 21114 Yonge Street, the Silver lakes Street address is the end of a sequence that starts with 1 Yonge Street, the Toronto Star building of the ....
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