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Kinda of amusing Alpha result: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=151+Third+St+San+Francisco http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=151+Third+St+San+Franci...
by taliesinb 15y ago
Kinda of amusing Alpha result: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=151+Third+St+San+Francisco http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=151+Third+St+San+Franci...
- timr 15y agoYeah...parsing addresses is non-trivial. It quickly turns into a probabilistic/NLP problem, if you want to deal with any sort of real-life input. I can believe that Wolfram Alpha hasn't put a lot of effort into it. The DB lookup part of the problem (the part that Geocoder::US solves) is the straightforward, mechanical part -- but geocoder precision/recall is almost entirely determined by the quality of the parsing. That's a lot harder to do well.