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  • $\begingroup$ Hi Robin, I'm interested in your AddressMatcher library. Do you happen to have any documentation on how to use it? I have this exact problem - need to match 1 set of addresses (messy) to another (official postal addresses). Thanks $\endgroup$ Commented Aug 9, 2019 at 15:31
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    $\begingroup$ sadly with the address matcher it's not at all trivial and i don't have good documentation. main thing you need is to load addressbase premium, a commercial product, into postgresql. $\endgroup$ Commented Aug 16, 2019 at 9:23
  • $\begingroup$ Ok, thanks for getting back to me. I am working with I suppose the Irish version of Addressbase premium called Eircode which will be incompatible. Do you think fuzzy matcher would be up to the task in production environment address matching? I just want to append postcodes to addresses in my data that don't have them, e.g. search the Eircode databse for '1 Main Street, Some Town, County' and if I find a match - bring back the postcode. $\endgroup$ Commented Aug 16, 2019 at 9:48
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    $\begingroup$ fuzzy matcher - yes i definitely think worth a go. it should work reasonably well for a smallish list of addresses to find within a large list of authoratative addresses (i.e. eircode) on a beefy machine. Another option is the fastlink pacakge in R $\endgroup$ Commented Aug 16, 2019 at 14:06