Ooops, you're confusing Portland and Seattle. There are tons of houses in seattle where moving the NE will break things. In Portland, the number of leading-0 addresses is more like 500 or so, so that's a smaller problem, but still a problem.

But the real problem is that you cannot coalesce like this. You cannot know that "123D Main" is really the same as "123 Main, Apt D". They might not be. And if you join them, you might break things.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to •Re: Re: •Re: Re: •Re: Re: Merge/Purge address data by merlyn
in thread Merge/Purge address data by cleverett

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