[postgis-devel] parse_address and standardize_address

[Brian M Hamlin]

Hi - a bit of feedback on the functions.. 

I have three sets of address, in descending order of "cleanliness", and 
ran both functions on the three sets just now.. 
PostGIS 2.2 trunk and Postgres 9.4b3  (yes three, typo in that ticket)

epa_addrs2 16384;  chanced_addrs 11078; rec_addrs 25110

epa_addrs2 has a lot of noisey and badly formatted addrs.. the other 
two have some ordinary problems

parse_address(addr) does not need lex/gaz rules, and will do its best 
with whatever you throw at it.. meanwhile standardize_address(addr) 
does take lex/gaz rules, and did not complete two of the three sets.. I 
got an error condition returned 

ERROR:  standardize_address() can not be passed an intersection. 

  I have not characterized *all* the cases where this error is 
returned, but it seems like the phrase is covering more cases than a 
real "intersection". 
I will move on to the TIGER data in the geocoder rather than more of 
this right now, but I wanted to let people see this.. 

best regards  --Brian