I am trying to convert an address of the type:
24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, CA 94107
to a FIPS code (in this case, it would be 075).
Does anyone know any tools that can do this? Would even be happy to pay for a service that can convert.
You can do a one-time lookup here:
http://www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm
Or, you can purchase a product to use:
http://www.zip-info.com/products/products.htm
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My team wants to implement a feature for physical addresses to be localized from navigator.language, for example, in the US this is a physical address:
919 Stimple Ct, Fairbanks, Alaska 99712, USA
in other countries like Italy, the address is:
Rossi Gianni, VIA GARIBALDI 26, 70043 MONOPOLI BA, ITALIA
and each country or region have a different format for physical address.
The thing is the address display is based on US physical address for the street number and name, the state, the city, and then is displayed in another screen. But for other countries is different, so the street number and name depends on how the user writes them, but the other fields for state, city and Postal Code will show with the US address format. Changing the input fields will do the same, changing the variables for each input means creating code for each language (not an option).
I've been searching for a library for React to format physical address but all I've found are libraries to parse the address in an object, but it doesn't format the address by location.
So I'm looking for a master who may know a library (or maybe a license to pay for) to format physical address by location.
We may use only 5 address format by continent if there is no library to localize them.
Thanks !
I have a retail database in Arabic, the addresses are written in Arabic, I have found a way to turn the letters to numbers to maybe make it easier for me, however, I am struggling to filter only the city name from the columns.
The problem is that the address is very specific, they are more of directions and they are generally written in the format of ( city, street, building name, nearby landmark ) but most of the time it's only written as the city only.
Is there a way to extract only the city from all the addresses?
Can you please suggest me a good provider for "City, State, Country, Zip code/postal code and geocode" Database. We have a requirement in our project for location search autocomplete. So, we need a database with complete locations list for US and Canada on priority and other countries in future.
Please suggest a location database provider with above mentioned fields, which has accurate data.
For Canada and the US see: https://geocoder.ca/?register=1&capostal=1
(
The Canadian Postal Code Dataset, last updated on 2018-07-01 00:15:15, with 5371 new records, has a total of 995676 unique postal codes.)
For your task you will most likely need: 2. Complete File - Canada Postal Address Database (20363095 records as of 2018-06-26 16:28:27)
As for the USA, fro the same source: the US Zip+4 Database Containing over 30Million Records
For USA you can populate data from the link below :
http://gomashup.com/cms/usa_zipcode_json
I have downloaded a database cities
`Country` `City` `AccentCity` `Region` `Population` `Latitude` `Longitude`
af amir kalay Amir Kalay 16 0 34.6333 70.3333
ad aixas Aixas 06 0 42.4833 1.4667
and lot more records
I have downloaded another database called fips_10_4 to show the state of the city
country,Region,State
AD,02,"Canillo"
AD,03,"Encamp"
AD,04,"La Massana"
AD,05,"Ordino"
AD,06,"Sant Julia de Loria"
AD,07,"Andorra la Vella"
AD,08,"Escaldes-Engordany"
AE,01,"Abu Dhabi"
Now if you are thinking that Iam asking for some sql query then you are wrong.
Everything was working fine but then I came to know that the file i downloaded from
Maxmind website is incomplete as 'fips_10_4' has no record for country 'af' and region '16' .May anybody help me to deal this problem and tell me the correct place to download this complete file
FIPS 10-4 has changed. The list of changes can be found here.
In particular, AF16 (Laghman) has changed to AF35. MaxMind uses the new list.
If you need both the old and the new codes, you can find them here. You can parse the contents of the file, and replace your database table with the information found there.
AF is the two digit ISO code (IS0-3166-2) for Afghanistan, which ISO are currently trying to sell for the frankly astonishing sum of CHF 244 (Swiss Francs).
As Teleo says FIPS 10-4 has changed as detailed on the ITL website and the link Teleo has given provides the data in a more usable format. MaxMind also provides it in a better format.
I would be extremely wary about using this. Both MaxMind & Teleo's link are being provided, for free, by an external company/person that has no particular interest in keeping their data up-to-date. I notice, for instance, that the following countries are missing:
South Sudan
Sint Martaan (Dutch Part)
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Curaçao
The last three were part of the Netherlands Antilles, which was dissolved on 10th October 2010. Incidentally, the Netherlands Antilles, which hasn't existed for a year and a half, is still on this file.
The reason for all of this? FIPS 10-4 was withdrawn almost a decade ago on 8th September 2002. To quote the ITS website (my emphasis):
“For a replacement to FIPS 10-4, INCITS L1 is coordinating with other
standards developers and interested parties to determine whether
processing a draft proposed American National Standard or adopting an
ISO standard would be the better way forward. For more information on
the status of this activity, contact Rick Pearsall
(Richard.A.Pearsall#nga.mil).”
A quick Google brings the news the INCITS L1 is next meeting on the 12th June 2012. I wouldn't hold your breath.
Another reason not to use FIPS is that it is unlikely to be used much outside of the USA (obviously some people will still use it). While this may not matter immediately I would future proof your systems as a matter of course.
I would highly recommend using the ISO 3166 standard. It is a globally recognised way of categorising country data.
The CommonDataHub maintains a great version, which includes country and state in the same manner as FIPS 10-4. They also have other ISO states databases, which are more normalised and worth investigating.
It also maintains a list of all cities with a population greater than 5,000.
ISO maintain a copy on their website of the 3166-2 standard, which will take a bit of coding to ensure it's you're always updated at least you'll be sure it's correct. Wikipedia is also surprisingly good at keeping up-to-date. It beat CommonDataHub by a month when South Sudan was created, due to problems telling people that the data existed.
There are other places out there where this data exists, this just details what I use.
If you want to avoid databases all-together then the Yahoo! PlaceFinder API is a good place to start. It has some documented problems keeping up-to-date but at least there's a place where you can tell them they've got it wrong.
tl;dr
Don't use FIPS, it was withdrawn a decade ago. Use the globally recognised ISO standard instead.
I am not sure what is your true goal, but here is a great resource of countries and cities and all...
Address records are probably used in most database, but I've seen a number of slightly different sets of fields used to store them. The number of fields seems to vary from 3-7, and sometimes all fields are simple labelled address1..addressN, other times given specific meaning (town, city, etc).
This is UK specific, though I'm open to comments about the rest of the world too. Here you need the first line of the address (actually just the number) and the post code to identify the address - everything else is mostly an added bonus.
I'm currently favouring:
Address 1
Address 2
Address 3
Town
County
Post Code
We could add Country if we ever needed it (unlikely).
What do you think? Is this too little, too much?
The Post Office suggests (http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=19100182&mediaId=19100267) 7 lines:
Addressees Name
Company/Organisation
Building Name
Number of building and name of thoroughfare
Locality Name
Post Town
Post Code
They then say you do not need to include a County name provided the Post Town and Postcode are used.
The BSI have BS 7666 - that covers all addressing. I recommend you look there.
The 2000 version recommends
An address shall be based upon a logical data model comprising the following entities:
addressable object, with sub-types:
primary addressable object;
secondary addressable object;
street;
locality;
town;
administrative area, a.k.a. district;
county;
postcode.
See: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/def/common/BS7666Address
I don't know whether this is minimal (I doubt it) but the heading on my cheque book says something pretty close to:
Lloyds TSB
Isle of Man Offshore Centre
Peveril Buildings
Peveril Square
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM99 0XX
United Kingdom
This causes fits when I try to enter it into the US banking system.
If I were you, I'd call Royal Mail and ask them... or look on their website for postcode lookup as a best practice.
There's different types of addresses, and each different type has a slightly different structure. Forward sorting offices have a different postal address structure than a residential home with a street number. What if the house has a name instead of a number? There are so many factors to consider.
Since I moved to Canada I had to do something similar and it's far more complicated than a straightforward residential address which generally has:
Street Number if applicable
Street Number Suffix if applicable
House Name
Street Name
Street Type
Street Direction if applicable
Unit Number for flats, townhouses or other types of building/location
Minor Municipality (Village)
Major Municipality (Major Town/City)
County
PostCode
Country if you include Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland (and now I noticed Eire)
Then you get businesses that have their own Delivery Route, PO Boxes, Forward Sortation Offices...
It gets complicated in a real hurry.
Best bet - give Royal Mail a call and they should be able to give you information on their standard address templates.
EDIT: Your 3 field method isn't a bad one...particularly. However, data sanitization may be a significant issue using the field setup you have and you may need a fairly complex strategy for making sure that the address entered is valid. It's far easier to sanitize single dedicated fields to make sure input is correct than it is to parse various address tokens out of combined fields.
Another simpler way to gain this info is to go on the Royal Mail website and check their postcode lookup page.
On their main postcode lookup, they use 4 fields and I guess they have some form of validation on the street name/type field. They separate the house number and name and I guess they only allow major municipality. I'm assuming the county/country are assumed. If you break out their advanced search, they give you two extra fields for flat number and business name.
Given that some fields are combined on their site, you have to assume that there's some amount of validation to make sure that data entered can be gainfully used.
Premises elements
Sub Building Name
Building Name
Building Number
Organisation Name
Department Name
PO Box Number
Thoroughfare elements
Dependent Thoroughfare Name
Dependent Thoroughfare Descriptor
Thoroughfare Name
Thoroughfare Descriptor
Locality elements
Double Dependent Locality
Dependent Locality
Post Town
Postcode element
Postcode
This answer may be a few years late, but it's aimed at those like myself looking for guidance on how to correctly format postal addresses for both storing in a database (or the likes of it) and for printing purposes.
Taken from Royal Mail Doc, link below - conveniently titled the 'Programmers Guide'
Technical specififcation for users of PAF
Page 27 - 42 was most helpful for me.
It's very likely that a "UK" will be opened to Eire as well, and in some lines of business there will be legal differences, generally between Scotland / NI / the channel islands and England and Wales.
In short, I would add country to the list. Otherwise it's fine (no fewer certainly), though of course any address is traceable from a building reference, a post code and a country alone.
Where we live in France its just 3 lines:-
myname
village/location name
6 digit postcode followed by post town name in uppercase
Even from UK that's all that is required