Thanks a lot; will defintely look into this one! The other solution I looked at was to send an address to google (We have a commercial deal with them; I work for a failry large newspaper); get it geocoded and then go from there... The issue here is one of time...
Hajo On Nov 20, 12:38 pm, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an issue with users doing a lookup on street address. > [snip] > > This seems like asuch a common problem; are there any > > libraries for this; what is the "correct" way to handle this? > > How do google; Mapquest and Yahoo do this? (I don't have quite > > their resources; but it would point me in the right > > direction...) > > One common Python solution is to snag PyParsing and extend their > streetAddressParser.py example > > http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/Examples > > There are some holes in it (most notably "rd" missing from the > numberSuffix definition, but the cardinal directions may need > expansion too from just "N S E W" to include "NW SW NE SW"), but > it should get you pointed in the right direction and be fairly > easily extensible. > > I've tried with regexps, and it gets *really ugly*. > > An alternative might be using the USPS website (or ERSI, Google, > or Yahoo's website(s)) to do the work for you, but that may not > scale well and might violate their ToS. > > -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
