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Introduction
In collaboration with the Treasurer/Tax Collector we are making a street address validation service available.
This page describes this service.
This is the first version and we are waiting on the Treasurer to comment.
The Service
Here is the DEV URL with an example address of "100 Main St":
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We strongly prefer JSON but we can produce XML if you buy us a beer.
We have tested the DEV implementation against a random sample of 1% of the Treasurers data and the success rate is about 95%.
You can see the unit tests here.
We get parse failures on addresses like this one: PMB 169 3701 SACRAMENTO ST
In the next iteration I am planing on including geocoding and zip code look up.
Examples
Here are validation links to 10 random addresses from the Treasurer's database:
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