From cfef3059bbb99fe39187795882bf9c28733ef575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:19:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [readme] Moving paragraph --- README.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ffd95265..af5803db 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -54,10 +54,6 @@ in terms of n-gram set overlap. In non-Latin scripts, say a Russian address and its transliterated equivalent, it's conceivable that two addresses referring to the same place may not match even a single character. -libpostal aims to create normalized geographic strings, parsed into components, -such that we can more effectively reason about how well two addresses -actually match. - As a motivating example, consider the following two equivalent ways to write a particular Manhattan street address with varying conventions and degrees of verbosity: @@ -69,6 +65,10 @@ Obviously '30 W 26th St Fl #7 != '30 West Twenty-sixth Street Floor Number 7' in a string comparison sense, but a human can grok that these two addresses refer to the same physical location. +libpostal aims to create normalized geographic strings, parsed into components, +such that we can more effectively reason about how well two addresses +actually match and make automated server-side decisions about dupes. + Isn't that geocoding? ---------------------