Parsing and Standardizing an Address using GeoGoogle API

Google provides an API to address standardization. It standardizes addresses by utilizing google's geocoding service.
GeoGoogle is a client API to google's geocoding service, if you are looking for a offline solution (which has no usage limit), take a look at http://jgeocoder.sourceforge.net

To use geocoding web service, you need sign-up for your own API key at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

more information on http://geo-google.sourceforge.net/usage.html

here is a sample:

public class GeoGoogleTest { final static String PROXY_SERVER = "myproxy.com"; final static int PROXY_PORT = 80; private static GeoAddressStandardizer createGeoAddressStandardizer() { final HttpClientParams httpClientParams = new HttpClientParams(); final HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient(httpClientParams); //enable these 3 lines if you are behind a proxy server. /* final HostConfiguration hostConfiguration = new HostConfiguration(); hostConfiguration.setProxy(PROXY_SERVER, PROXY_PORT); httpClient.setHostConfiguration(hostConfiguration); */ GeoAddressStandardizer.setHttpClient(httpClient); //this is my key, you must get you own from "http://code.google.com/apis/base/signup.html" and insert it here. return new GeoAddressStandardizer("ABQXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"); } public static void main(final String[] args) throws GeoException { final String testAddress = "Via Tommaso Campanella, 15b, 00355 Roma, Italy"; final GeoAddressStandardizer geoAddressStandardizer = createGeoAddressStandardizer(); final List<GeoAddress> geoAddresses = geoAddressStandardizer.standardizeToGeoAddresses(testAddress); for (final GeoAddress geoAddress : geoAddresses) { System.out.println(geoAddress.getAddressLine()); } final String addressLine1 = geoAddressStandardizer.standardize(testAddress, new XmlMappingFunctor<String>() { @Override public String execute(final String xml) { try { // parse the xml string into a document object final Document doc = XmlUtils.parse(xml); System.out.println(xml); // use XPath to select an value from the document return XmlUtils.selectValue(doc, "//ThoroughfareName"); } catch (final Exception e) { System.out.println(e.getMessage()); } return null; } }); System.out.println("Output ==> " + addressLine1); } } view raw GeoGoogleTest.java hosted with ❤ by GitHub