Can I use your LiveAddress API to get "auto-suggest" results?

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I'm looking for a slightly different API.

I'd like to submit a partial address with no delineation of fields like:

'1600 penn'

(Note the the street number and address are not delineated.)

I'd like to get back a list of most likely full addresses based on that partial address entry, like:

{
  Street: '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue',
  City: 'Washington, D.C.',
  Country: 'USA'
}

It seems your database would be able to support that, and it's much better for us to use a service provider dedicated to this task than to try taking it on ourselves (we're running a pokey single server). Would you be interested in providing such an API?

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It looks like you would like our auto-suggest address feature (not yet available). Let's see if I understand correctly.

You would like to enter 175 North (and nothing else) and be able to get a listing of all the potential matches in the USPS database of addresses. You would like to get the following results:

175 North Main St Ephraim, UT 84627
175 North Vine St Tooele, UT 84022
175 North South Avenue Pennsylvania, PA 12345
(17 more...)

Of course, the results would be broken down into components for proper formatting. Is that what you are looking for?

Our service can take an address and a ZIP code and let you know if it a good address, and then if not, it can tell you why not.

We currently have to have an address and city/state OR address and zip.

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answered 13 Feb, 17:50

Jeffrey - SmartyStreets ♦♦
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That's exactly what we're looking for - autosuggest. I can expand a little, but I suspect this use case is very common:

We're improving a client's site that handles shipping freight containers. There's a form like:

Street:
City:
State:
Zip:
Country:

They inevitably begin entering Street first, and we'd like to hit a JSON API that gives us suggestions broken down into those fields (more granular is fine, we can easily map things over). We already have the code written to present the suggestions to the user for them to pick from, and to fill the fields if they choose one.

(13 Feb, 17:52) Questions ♦♦

What we don't have is a service to get those suggestions from.

Since it's a typeahead it obviously needs to be fast, which means it's probably best on a CDN or several datacenters - not something we can provide for this client's budget.

Google provides exactly this in their Reverse Geocoding service, but it's $10k/yr because our form is behind a login - much too much for our low query rate.

(13 Feb, 17:52) Questions ♦♦

Answer 2

0	Auto-suggest is coming. It will be included with our existing service. Thus there won't be any additional charges for it. link answered 13 Feb, 17:54 Jeffrey - SmartyStreets ♦♦ 2.2k●1●4 accept rate: 50%

Can I use your LiveAddress API to get "auto-suggest" results?

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