Address Matcher
What's in an address?
Are 123 Main St., Smalltown, RI and 123 Main Street, Smalltown, RI the same
address? == says false, but human intuition says yes. This gem leverages
the excellent geocoder gem to make a
more educated guess by comparing lat/long of two addresses and returning true
if they are close enough.
Usage
$ gem install address-matcher
require address-matcher
Create an AddressLibrary with all of the "known" address strings that you want
to match against:
addresses = ['30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023',
'1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028',
'1001 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10028',
'1002 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10028'
]
library = AddressLibrary.build(addresses)Then simply call match to find the closest matching address:
library.match('1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10028')
#=> 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028License
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