How to parse freeform street/postal address out of text, and into components

Question

We do business largely in the United States and are trying to improve user experience by combining all the address fields into a single text area. But there are a few proble

Answer 1

libpostal: an open-source library to parse addresses, training with data from OpenStreetMap, OpenAddresses and OpenCage.

https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal (more info about it)

Other tools/services:

• http://www.gisgraphy.com Free, open source, and ready to use geocoder and geolocalisation webservices, integrating OpenStreetMap, GeoNames and Quattroshapes.

• https://github.com/kodapan/osm-common Library for accessing OpenStreetMap services, parsing and processing data.

• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

• http://address-parser.net/

• http://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/AddressNormalization/