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Support Forum for database administrators and web based access to important newsgroups related to databasesI'm thinking of doing some basic parsing of address. I want to seprate out the house number from the street name from the suffix. I have the suffix's from the USPS, but I cant find a database of US street names. Anyone come across one or know where I can get one? TIA Rob /end off topic
Post Follow-up to this message"rcamarda" <rcamarda@cablespeed.com> wrote in message news:1127439693.974508.70290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com... > I'm thinking of doing some basic parsing of address. I want to seprate > out the house number from the street name from the suffix. I have the > suffix's from the USPS, but I cant find a database of US street names. > Anyone come across one or know where I can get one? > TIA > Rob > /end off topic Its probably not in a convenient format, but you could try parsing streetnames from TIGER data - www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html. TIGER data is used by a lot of applications and is free. They might do a separate street name download, but I couldn't get to the site when I tried just now to look. Hope this is useful. -- Brian Cryer www.cryer.co.uk/brian
Post Follow-up to this messageBrian, That did the trick, thanks! I found the detail files in Tiger located here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger.../tgr2004se.html I used GETRIGHT to download all the zip files (over 1,600). There is a ton of data that I dont need, ill just use SQL to keep the unique street names. I plan to get all the unique street names and all the street suffixes. If anyone is interested in the data when I'm done, post and I'll send you the info. After I get all the text data loaded, my next step will be parse out the addresses, so I'm sure I'll be posting in this group again! Cheers, Rob
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