it might be better to use geocoding depending on your use case. i know there is a lucene spatial indexer that will let you search "nearby" but you could also just index the geocode and use that to retrieve the record.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Ron Grabowski <rongrabow...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I'm looking to index mailing addresses. I'd like to take into account these > common abbreviations: > > http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.html > > Would those be considered synonyms? I'm not exactly sure if I should use > the WordNet modules or extend a built in analyzer and append my own filter. > > Has someone (in Java or .NET) already written a mailing address analyzer > that handles normalizing things like "163 N 4th St" into "163 North Fourth > Street"...if that's even a good thing to do? > >
