[postgis-users] Incorrect Address Parsing

[Shawn Peterson]

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I was geocoding the following address:

SELECT g.rating, ST_X(g.geomout) As lon, ST_Y(g.geomout) As lat,
(addy).address As stno, (addy).streetname As street,
(addy).streettypeabbrev As styp, (addy).location As city,
(addy).stateabbrev As st,(addy).zip
FROM geocode('*100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025*') As g;

All the returned results are wrong, even cities don't match.

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I did a workaround by manually supplying the address components:

SELECT g.rating, ST_X(g.geomout) As lon, ST_Y(g.geomout) As lat,
(addy).address As stno, (addy).streetname As street,
(addy).streettypeabbrev As styp, (addy).location As city,
(addy).stateabbrev As st,(addy).zip
FROM geocode(row*(100,'','El Camino Real','','','','Menlo Park', 'CA',
'94025',true)*::norm_addy) As g;

This second query gives a closer answer (street number is 101, on the other
side of the street). Is this the only workaround? This would assume my
addresses are already correctly parsed by another program.

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 It seems the problem is with address normalization:

SELECT normalize_address('100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025');
             normalize_address
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* (100,,Real,Cam,E,,"Menlo Park",CA,94025,t)*
(1 row)

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On the other hand, geocoder.us can parse the address correctly, and it's on
the correct side of the street.
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