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Bug#884731: ITP: libpostal -- parse and normalise street addresses around the world



Andrew Shadura writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andrew Shadura <andrewsh@debian.org>
>
> * Package name    : libpostal
>   Version         : 1.0.0
>   Upstream Author : openvenues, Mapzen
> * URL             : https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : parse and normalise street addresses around the world
>
> libpostal is a C library for parsing/normalizing street addresses around
> the world using statistical NLP and open data. The goal of this project
> is to understand location-based strings in every language, everywhere.
>
> libpostal's international address parser uses machine learning
> (Conditional Random Fields) and is trained on over 1 billion addresses
> in every inhabited country on Earth. It uses use OpenStreetMap and
                                          ^^^^^^^^
There is a typo in the description.

-- 
Alberto


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