BrowserUk,
When you say "Given an address as input, find any "similar" addresses in the DB" your not trying to (for example) locate next door neighbours, but rather locate duplicates with minor typos or transcription errors?

The latter (typos and transcription errors) with a caveat. If the input is '123 Main St' and the DB has a record of '356 Main Street', I would hope that the search wouldn't return "no results found". On the other hand, if the input was '12 Elm Ave' (two houses over), then the search should definately not find a match. Ultimately, I would like to return the best N matches ordered by degree of similarity.

Thanks for the pointer to Re^3: Comparing text documents. If I get real motivated, I will try it out.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Efficient Fuzzy Matching Of An Address by Limbic~Region
in thread Efficient Fuzzy Matching Of An Address by Limbic~Region

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