address format
[geocoding] The particular structure and arrangement of address elements and a corresponding method of matching that can be used for a specific application. The address format may vary based on locale or country.
[edit] Address format
In most of the world, addresses are written in order from most specific to general information, starting with the addressee and ending with the largest geographical unit. For example[1]: ...
Furthermore, recently the Postal Service started a "Find a ZIP Code" feature on its website, which provides an address format that is most compatible with its optical character recognition, or OCR, scanners: ...
The wide variations of address formats also make it impossible to develop reliable algorithms to handle all addresses, which lead to frequent failures in handling addresses.
 See also: Origin, Format, Information, Navigation, Block
|
