Districts identified as street names but only for certain addresses

[janpasierb]

Hi!

I was checking out libpostal, and saw something that could be improved.

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My country is

GB

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Here's how I'm using libpostal

We're parsing customer-provided addresses to be used by third parties

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Here's what I did

We've provided the following address to libpostal: "38 meadow road, garforth, leeds, LS25 2EN"

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Here's what I got

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Here's what I was expecting

I expected "Garforth" to be correctly identified as a district, instead it's being identified as part of the road name

What's strange is that it does work for other similarly-formatted addresses, e.g.: 24 Slade Lane, Levenshulme, Manchester, M13 0QE correctly identifies "Levenshulme" as a district in "Manchester".

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For parsing issues, please answer "yes" or "no" to all that apply.

• Does the input address exist in OpenStreetMap?
  Yes
• Do all the toponyms exist in OSM (city, state, region names, etc.)?
  Yes
• If the address uses a rare/uncommon format, does changing the order of the fields yield the correct result?
  N/A
• If the address does not contain city, region, etc., does adding those fields to the input improve the result?
  N/A
• If the address contains apartment/floor/sub-building information or uncommon formatting, does removing that help? Is there any minimum form of the address that gets the right parse?
  N/A

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Here's what I think could be improved

[tlloyd-synalogik]

Hi @albarrentine, could you kindly review this issue for us and provide any feedback?

[brianmacy]

38 meadow road, garforth, leeds, LS25 2EN

== Parsed results == house_number: 38 road: meadow road suburb: garforth city: leeds postcode: ls25 2en You might want to check out the Senzing provided alternative model. It has the updated postal codes and such for the UK.

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