Tac,
USPS advertises a number of web services that I have not used, but that look interesting, especially since one might think that they should be an authoritative source for correct addresses... https://www.usps.com/business/address-quality-services.htm
Look at "show details" under Address Element Correction & AEC II® Service, and see if that might be something you could use.
Regards, Michael
On Nov 9, 2012 6:59 AM, <washington-dcphp-group@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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- Address Cleanup / Standardization [2 Updates]
Tac Tacelosky <tacman@gmail.com> Nov 08 06:54PM -0500
I'm working on a project that needs to merge a few databases, and not
surprisingly, the store names and addresses differ wildly. I thought I
found a toolkit that would allow me to process all the databases and
standardize them names (and remove duplicates) here:
http://www.semaphorecorp.com/
But my order was rejected, based on their terms and conditions:
*8*. ZP4's license prohibits processing data for clients, and prohibits
using ZP4 to create ZP4-derived or ZP4-dependent data or services.
Semaphore Corporation may decline your order ... or if you are a service
company, reseller, data vendor, or programming shop.
Argh. They also have geo-coding tools, which I was quite enthusiastic
about.
Any other suggestions? I can't believe USPS doesn't make it easier, one
would think that it's in their best interest to make it easy to sort mail,
standardize addresses, etc.
Thx,
Tac
William Hurley <whurley@forumone.com> Nov 08 07:12PM -0500
Geocoding services should also return the normalized address. I don't know
if the TOS for Yahoo Placefinder would work, but I'm reasonably sure
Google's wouldn't unless you're mapping them on GMap.
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