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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: 0.196s | source
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kleiba ◴[09 Jul 25 07:35 UTC] No.44507225[source]▶
Relevant? -> "Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses" (https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...)

Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8907301

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1. tempodox ◴[09 Jul 25 14:38 UTC] No.44510575[source]▶
… where the first falsehood is that a computer could be able to parse an address at all (let alone normalize it). Just take the address as given and leave the rest to the mail delivery person.