How I Built Address Quality API to Read Indonesian Addresses
In the previous post, I asked why address forms still make you select information you have already typed. My proposed solution was to move that effort into an API. You provide the address, the API interprets it, then you confirm the result. So I built Address Quality, an experiment for turning free-text Indonesian addresses into structured administrative data. The first alpha version tries to answer two questions: Which parts of the address can it recognize? Which possible location matches those parts best? That sounds simple. But something that sounds simple isn’t always easy to solve. ...