Location addresses should be standardized

[crocojim18]

A current problem in finding duplicates is that many addresses are unstandardized. There are many flavors of this:

• Errors in text substitutions: At some point in compilation (perhaps going back to the source data) text substitutions done that went too far. Examples include:
  • DuBois BP -> DuBlvdis BP
  • 1001 Washington Pike -> 1001 WasHighwayngton Pikeke
• Some of the addresses have been truncated (1 Urbano Way -> 1 Urbano Wa)
• Many of the addresses have extra information
  • Many have parentheses, such as 2201 Salisbury Street (At Spray Park location (next to baseball field))
• Encoding errors: Jodinko’s Farm Market
• in addition to expected errors, such as differences in abbreviation (St. vs Street)
• Missing street suffixes
• Missing street numbers (Perrysville Avenue (Observatory Entrance))

among others

[hellonewman]

We've decided to ignore the address issues and just lat/long for deducing (not exact lat/longs but use general area to flag potential location duplicates).