street-address

Is it even possible to perform address (physical, not e-mail) validation? It seems like the sheer number of address formats, even in the US alone, would make this a fairly difficult task. On the other hand, it seems like a task that would be necessary for several business requirements. Tim Farley Here's a free and sort of "outside the box" way to do it. Not 100% perfect, but it should reject blatantly non-existent addresses. Submit the entire address to Google's geocoding web service . This service attempts to return the exact coordinates of the location you feed it, i.e. latitude and

Given the task of storing international geographic addresses in a relational table, what is the most flexible schema? Should every part of the address be broken out into their own fields, or should it be more like free text? Is there any sense in separating differently formatted address into different tables? For example, have a table for USAAddress, CanadianAddress, UKAddress...? BenAlabaster I will summarize my thoughts from my blog post - A lesson in address storage . On my current project [I work for a logistics company] we're storing international addresses. I've done research on

I have to get an address by coordinates, but it doesnt work and outputs "Couldnt get address": public String GetAddress(String lat, String lon) { Geocoder geocoder = new Geocoder(this, Locale.ENGLISH); String ret = ""; try { List<Address> addresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(Double.parseDouble(lat), Double.parseDouble(lon), 1); if(addresses != null) { Address returnedAddress = addresses.get(0); StringBuilder strReturnedAddress = new StringBuilder(""); for(int i=0; i<returnedAddress.getMaxAddressLineIndex(); i++) { strReturnedAddress.append(returnedAddress.getAddressLine(i)).append("\n"); } ret

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 be an iPhone app (and why the app already knows lat/long), so anything from a web service to an iPhone API would work. Google again http://nicogoeminne.googlepages.com/documentation.html http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/web/resources-non-google-geocoders Google now supports reverse geocoding in both JavaScript API and webservice

While I know that matching a street address will never be perfect I'm looking to create a couple of regex statements that will get close most of the time. I'm trying to highlight an address. I sucks at regex and I've tried to get close but could someone help me understand how I can make this better? string: 6 am - 11 pM , Palma Sola Elementary, 6806 Fifth Ave NW, Bradenton, FL 34209 Come find just near the dsfsd sa fsa fasdf asfsds 5001 west your momma doesn't live here my 2005 ford ranger, Regex 1: /\s+(\d{2,5}\s+)(?![a|p]m\b)(([a-zA-Z|\s+]{1,5}){1,2})?([\s|\,|.]+)?(([a-zA-Z|\s+]{1,30}){1,4})

Which HTML5 markup should we use for postal addresses? And which vocabulary could we use for enabling machine-readability? As an example, the address of W3C’s main office : W3C/MIT 32 Vassar Street Room 32-G515 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA The address element must only be used if this postal address represents the contact information for "its nearest article or body element ancestor", which, of course, is not the case for all addresses. But if address is used or not, it doesn’t affect the following. The whole address should be enclosed in a p element , because "an address is also a paragraph". As

From first glance, it would appear I have two basic choices for storing ZIP codes in a database table: Text (probably most common), i.e. char(5) or varchar(9) to support +4 extension Numeric, i.e. 32-bit integer Both would satisfy the requirements of the data, if we assume that there are no international concerns. In the past we've generally just gone the text route, but I was wondering if anyone does the opposite? Just from brief comparison it looks like the integer method has two clear advantages: It is, by means of its nature, automatically limited to numerics only (whereas without

I have a task to validate addresses entered into a system I am currently creating. The system requires that address entered are validated against a valid data source. In the UK the dataset comes from the Royal Mail and is expensive to access. The data needed is post code info for the whole of europe to start with accessed by an API into the web application. There are a number of companies that offer this service, QAS Capscan Postcode anywhere These all offer the service I require. However this is expensive and in some cases not a complete data set. e.g. not Ireland I was also wondering if