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 dynamic to store all street addresses of the world which is identifying just by one i...
Im trying to extract an address (written in french) out of a listing using regex. here is the example: "Don't wait, this home won't be on the market for long! Pictures can be forwarded upon request. 123 de la street - city 345-555-1234 " Imagine that whole thing is item.description. Here is a working set so far: In "item.descriptio...
We have a program that displays map data (think Google Maps, but with much more interactivity and custom layers for our clients). We allow navigation via a set of combo boxes that prefill certain fields with a bunch of data (ie: Country: Canada, the Province field is filled in. Select Ontario, and a list of Counties/Regions is filled i...
Using Ruby (newb) and Regex, I'm trying to parse the street number from the street address. I'm not having trouble with the easy ones, but I need some help on: '6223 1/2 S FIGUEROA ST' ==> 'S FIGUEROA ST' Thanks for the help!! UPDATE(s): '6223 1/2 2ND ST' ==> '2ND ST' and from @pesto '221B Baker Street' ==> 'Baker Street' ...
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 f...
I am re-creating a part of my company’s database because it does not meet future needs. Currently we have mainly a flat file and some disjoined tables that were never fully realized. My way of thinking is we have a table for each category except maybe the zips table, which may serve as a connect it all together table. Please refer to im...
Suppose we're making a system where we have to store the addrees for buildings, persons, cars, etc. The address 'format' should be something like: State (From a State list) County (From a County List) Street (free text, like '5th Avenue') Number (free text, like 'Chrysler Building, Floor 10, Office No. 10') (Yes I don't live in U.S...
Is there a good physical address to GeoLocation conversion database in the UK? I am trying to use this to build a globrix style search box http://www.globrix.com/ for a web application. Any pointers will be nice. I have been searching for hours. I have found several that convert UK Postcodes into Geolocation. But I need the addresses lis...
Hey everybody, I'm trying to see what would be a good way to validate a US address, I know that there might be not a proper way of doing this, but I'm going for the basic way: #, Street name, City, State, and Zip Code. Any ideas will be appreciate it. Thanks ...
Say I am storing addresses in a DB table, in this fairly common break down: address_street_line_1, address_street_line_2, address_city, address_state, address_zip, address_country_id (Note: I have read the questions on splitting down further, street type, house number, etc. and for this application I think it would unnecessarily compl...
i have bunch of unformatted docs.... i need regex to capture street address, postal code, state, phone numbers, emails, such common formats... ...
i am using gmail contacts api but the address is all in one string. is there any standard parser to parse a single string into a proper address object with the following fields: Street Address 1 Street Address 2 City State Zip ...
I have two tables, "name" and "address". I would like to list the last_name and joined address.street_address of all last_name in table "name" that occur more than once in table "name". The two tables are joined on the column "name_id". The desired output would appear like so: 213 | smith | 123 bluebird | 14 | smith | 456 first ave...
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/country But I'm running into the (common from what I can tell) problem of pars...
A friend just brought by 1,000 lines of USA shipping addresses. (Excel.) I've read this into a Ruby program via CSV::. Now I would like to check the mailing addresses for sanity. It doesn't have to be a perfect check. Her shipping contractor will be using a UPS program of some sort and we are just trying to minimize the number of addres...
Does anyone have a php class, or regex to parse an address into components? At least, it should break up into these components: street info, state, zip, country ...
I have 5000, sometimes more, street address strings in an array. I'd like to compare them all with levenshtein to find similar matches. How can I do this without looping through all 5000 and comparing them directly with every other 4999? Edit: I am also interested in alternate methods if anyone has suggestions. The overall goal is to fi...
My Problem I'm attempting to crawl the individual links on the US House of Representatives Site to find Washington addresses for all of the listed individuals. The problem is that the format of the Washington address varies from time to time. Sometimes there are bullets, pipes, new lines and break-tags making it difficult to match. I...
hi. I have a column named streetaddress that contains <Street Number> <Street Name> for example: 15 rue Gontier-Patin 4968 Hillcrest Circle how can i remove the numbers from the beginning of the row purely in sql? ...
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 Our first thought is to strip the input of all street terms (rd, s...