From: Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T21:08:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Address search algorithms

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> Many many years ago :)
>

Thanks all for your tips!

I have already implemented most of them... but some of them are also good
ideas.

> Out of interest, are you using the postcode database to generate your
address
> information, or is it user-submitted data? If the latter, make sure you
constrain
> how data can be submitted. And either way, do as much pre-processing as
> possible to get the addresses into a normalised form.

This is pre-existing data... the worst kind :)

Mikel

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