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Libpostal: C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around the world

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80 points nateb2022 | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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shakna ◴[09 Jul 25 10:15 UTC] No.44508161[source]▶
I somehow doubt this will pass the snifftest of one of my old addresses, which Australia Post successfully delivered to on a weekly basis:

    Third on right of main,
    Tiwi College,
    Melville Island, 0822, AU.
You can try to normalize that... But "Main Road" is in another city. Because I wasn't living in a city. There were no road names. And the 3rd position was an empty plot, not the third house. We had a bunch of houses around a strip of land, a few minutes from the airstrip - the only egress.
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mrweasel ◴[09 Jul 25 10:31 UTC] No.44508271[source]▶
You also have to account for interestingly worded addresses. We had "

  Streetname 5, behind the glazier business.
  It might say <some other name> on the door
That's very specific, but also not really an address.
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1. devilbunny ◴[09 Jul 25 13:55 UTC] No.44510089[source]▶
“Duzbuns Hopsit pfarmerrsc”

(For today’s 10000, that’s Terry Pratchett. The autocrat of the city of Ankh-Morpork amuses himself, at times, by figuring out where unreadably-addressed mail should go - in this case, a baker (“duzbuns” == does buns) across the street (“hopsit” == opposite) from a pharmacy, which in his extremely detailed knowledge of the city means only one place.)