bcgov / ols-geocoder

Physical Address Geocoder
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Add support for an input field called streetAddress for more accurate batch geocoding #63

Open mraross opened 4 years ago

mraross commented 4 years ago

Client management applications and data warehouses extract and transform addresses to run through the batch geocoder. Typically, these sources keep addresses in pieces instead of in a single address string and these pieces often include locality. If a single address string is given to the batch geocoder, the geocoder often comes up with too many meaningless interpretations that involve variants of locality. If locality is kept separate on input, these meaningless interpretations can be avoided. The parser can still look for locality aliases and correct spelling mistakes in locality names, it just won't misinterpret parts of locality names as street names (e.g., Rupert St, Port Hardy,BC instead of Prince Rupert, BC)

Add support for specifying an input address in the following format:

streetAddress locality provinceCode

streetAddress includes all elements of addressString except locality and provinceCode.

alixcote commented 1 year ago

streetAddress would be combination of civic number and street name.

alixcote commented 11 months ago

Benefit: Locking the civic number and street name

Question: would there be no new faults and just break out what is provided or a new fault "streetAddress not found".