you could throw it at metacarta or yahoo's placemaker and it can tear
apart your sentence and return some pieces...

or you perhaps can grab code from geocoder.us ?  i would definitely
use this as a starting point if you were going to roll your own .

- me

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Fernando
Torre<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of any good, free address parsers out there? Our
> application currently uses multiple fields to input addresses, since our
> geocoder requires the address line, city, and zip code to be separate, but
> we are looking into the possibility of going down to one field. Microsoft's
> MapPoint has an address parser, but it fails when you don't add a comma
> before the city name. MapQuest and Google Maps can do geocoding directly
> from a single line, but the terms of service have restrictions that do not
> allow you to use their geocoding without using their maps. Any other
> options?
>
> Thanks,
> Fernando
>
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