Java postal address parser [closed]

Answer 1

The SourceForge JGeocoder has an address parser that you may find useful. See http://jgeocoder.sourceforge.net/parser.html.

Answer 2

Might want to read this Stack Overflow question: "Parse usable Street Address, City, State, Zip from a string". No actual Java code to do the job (just some VB), but there is some discussion of the problem and more info on the alternative John Gietzen mentions, of using a web service to interpret it for you.

Answer 3

See www.address-parser.com, they offer a web service for parsing international addresses.

Answer 4

I do know that the Google Maps web service is great at doing this. So, if you want to use that, you could save a lot of effort.

The real issue here is that you need a worldwide database of city/country/province names to effectively parse UNSTRUCTURED addresses.

Here is how I build a URL for use by the Google Maps API in C#:

string url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?key=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(this.apiKey) + "&sensor=false&output=xml&oe=utf8&q=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(location);

Answer 5

The Mural project has an address parser: https://mural.dev.java.net/. I haven't figured out how to exract it from the larger Mural engine, but it does work based on some very limited tests.