What's the source of your Australian data? The AusPost data is rather expensive, and most providers have somewhat awkward APIs and/or enterprise sales models that get tricky to navigate. Having somebody to abstract that out to would be fantastic.
erm, how exactly does this work globally?<p>state and zip are required fields. Ireland, for example, does <i>not</i> have zip codes...<p>full list of such countries:
<a href="http://hellowahab.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/list-of-countries-without-postal-codes/" rel="nofollow">http://hellowahab.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/list-of-countries...</a><p>and here is an example from Drupal where it failed the state requirements:
<a href="https://drupal.org/node/636464" rel="nofollow">https://drupal.org/node/636464</a><p>Lebanon, Serbia, Singapore for example do not have state information.
If you're just dealing with US Postal Addresses, personally I would just go straight to the source: <a href="https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/address-information.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/address-informa...</a> (also free).
I created a small sqlite database for US zip code lookup and verification, for embedding in mobile apps etc.
<a href="https://github.com/alex-hofsteede/zipcode_db" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/alex-hofsteede/zipcode_db</a>
SmartyStreets [1] is another provider, not free though. It seems they can do a lot more than verify, like their autocomplete (client side) -- pretty slick. [2]<p>[1] <a href="http://smartystreets.com/products/liveaddress-api/pricing#questions" rel="nofollow">http://smartystreets.com/products/liveaddress-api/pricing#qu...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://smartystreets.com/products/liveaddress-api/demo" rel="nofollow">http://smartystreets.com/products/liveaddress-api/demo</a><p>Have not had a chance yet to use this in a project.
StrikeIron is another provider. They have separate products for North American and Global address verification. Tiered monthly pricing.<p><a href="http://www.strikeiron.com/product-list/address/north-american-address-verification-2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.strikeiron.com/product-list/address/north-america...</a><p><a href="http://www.strikeiron.com/product-list/address/international-address-verification/" rel="nofollow">http://www.strikeiron.com/product-list/address/international...</a>
I am curious to know how do you verify these addresses? what methods you use? I recently built one for a client using Google maps api and it was not as easy and accurate as I thought.
It would be nice if we could try before we buy (globally). Also, $0.15 per lookup is really expensive.<p>Address verification is a pain; if I could get someone else to do that for me that would be nice.
How do you verify the data for Middle Eastern countries which don't really have street address systems or zipcodes, and only use PO Boxes? Just check that the PO Box exists?
This would be awesome if it delivers on its promises. How can we know your global address verification works? Can you publish some more information to boost confidence?<p>Also, I would love to integrate this with my app, but $0.15 is pretty steep when you consider the use-case, where margins can be pretty tight and prices are low. A tiered pricing structure would be much more attractive where once volume ramps up you're paying closer to $0.05 per lookup.
Looks good. Free for the United States is pretty attractive. Although the only thing I have to compare it to is Melissa Data.<p><a href="http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/store/service/?id=59a168b8-6d66-4f85-b000-38abcad310a2" rel="nofollow">http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/store/service/?id=59a168b8...</a>
I wonder how well it really works because addresses are really hard, see: <a href="http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...</a>
I've done some jobs that needed address verification and it was a pain. If they've really solved it, it's a huge accomplishment.<p>The rest of their tools look good too. Snail-mailing is sadly still essential to business and needs a workable API.
I made a site that did something like it a while ago: <a href="http://www.scrubmyaddress.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.scrubmyaddress.com</a>
State is a required field ? And we have no details on which data files you use ?<p>I'm very interested in such a service, but this does not look serious at all...