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From the linked post > Street addresses are among the more quirky artifacts of human language, yet they are crucial to the increasing number of applications in
by hrktb 8y ago
From the linked post
> Street addresses are among the more quirky artifacts of human language, yet they are crucial to the increasing number of applications involving maps and location.
The main goal seems to be positionning a point on a map.
As pointed out by the other comments, it’s fairly different from dealing with delivery addresses or legal addresses.
In particular it means parsing locations inside buildings (i.e. “3 appt of 2nd floor”, “Building 103 - code 17234, 34 foobar street”) with random info baked in for humans could easily trip it up and are not expected to either work properly.
Still looks like a pretty ambitious and interesting effort.
- adrianmonk 8y ago> The main goal seems to be positionning a point on a map. It says "Actually geocoding addresses to a lat/lon" in the "Non-goals" section of README.md.
- maxerickson 8y agoIt explicitly is not a geocoder (which is address->location), it just parses and normalizes addresses. It's meant to deal with something like "3 appt of 2nd floor", parsing and tagging "3 appt" as unit=apt. 3 and "of 2nd floor" as level=2, even if that string is mixed with further info like street and city and so on.