Re: Best implementation for address searching

2010-10-20 Thread Jasper de Barbanson
Hi Anshum, 1. The unstructured addresses are sometimes separated by comma, but most of the time by a single space. 2. The parts can be in an increasing or decreasing order, but not always. Most common combinations are "A street, B housenumber, C city", "D zipcode, E housenumber", "C city", "A stre

Re: Best implementation for address searching

2010-10-20 Thread Anshum
Hi Jason, Just a suggestion to start with, was almost an information overload for me but here is what I could think of straight off. Let me know in case you try it or have already tried it. A few point I'd want to know. 1. I understand that the addresses would/could be unstructured/ill-strcutured

Best implementation for address searching

2010-10-19 Thread Jasper de Barbanson
I'm currently working on building a Geocoder. The purpose of a Geocoder is to find the coordinates belonging to any given input address. I have a rather simple version based on Lucene working, however I have a feeling it can be a lot better. Also new functionality will be added, which is difficult