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by riordan·10y ago·view on hn ↗
Totally; on a number of occasions, Al's talked about address-formatting was a big underpinning of this effort. I'd be happy to help out with some of those other regions!

I'm pretty excited that this is the first time someone has been able to release into the open an address analysis engine like underpins Google's geocoder. You'd be surprised just how hand-tuned most of the other address parsing engines are (regex and case statements all the way down). This feels like a huge leap forward.

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As someone who works on a geocoder, no, I am not surprised how hand-tuned things are. I'm guilty of such sins myself. Clearly this is the way forward.

Feel free to help out on address-formatting. Where we really need help is eastern Asian countries with double-byte character scripts. Specifically CN, HK, JP, KP, KR, MO, and TW - those countries obviously represent a significant chunk of the world's population, so would be great if we could get help on those from folks with local knowledge.